Thomas Pownall
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish colonial official, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Province (1722-1805)
Thomas Pownall was a British colonial administrator and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780.
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The Evans-Pownall map of 1755
Portrait of William Shirley by Thomas Hudson, 1750. William Shirley was unseated as Massachusetts governor in part by Pownall's actions.
Pownall's drawing of the Passaic River's Great Falls
Pownall had a sometimes-contentious relationship with John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
Order by Pownall authorizing Lieutenant Colonel John Hawke to beat his drum for enlistments for regiment for the invasion of Canada, 1758
Benjamin Franklin was a friend and frequent correspondent of Pownall.
Lord North, portrait by Nathaniel DanceAwards 2
Politicians born in the 1720s 6
About this person
Thomas Pownall was a British colonial administrator and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780. He travelled widely in British North America prior to the American Revolutionary War, opposed Parliamentary attempts to tax the colonies, and was a minority advocate of colonial positions until the Revolution.
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