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Thomas Penn (8 March 1702 – 21 March 1775) was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America.
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- Lady Juliana Fermor Penn (m. 1751)
Notable works. Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England. Notable awards. 2012 HW Fisher Prize. Thomas Penn (born 1974) is an English historian, author and editor. He is best known for his 2011 biography of King Henry VII of England, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, for which he won the HW Fisher Best First Biography prize and ...
- 1974
- British
- English
- Author, Editor
In Walking Purchase. William Penn’s son Thomas Penn (1702–75), who was proprietor of Pennsylvania in 1737, hired the three fastest walkers in the colony and offered a large prize to the one who could cover the most land. The winner, running on a carefully cleared path, crossed more than twice the….
Thomas Penn (8 March 1702 – 21 March 1775) was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America.
6 de abr. de 2012 · The ambassadors, as Thomas Penn reveals in the opening of “Winter King,” his evocative portrait of this shadowy ruler, began their accounts by unintentionally demonstrating how little they had ...
- Miranda Seymour
Thomas Penn, 1702–75, colonial proprietor of Pennsylvania, b. Bristol, England; son of William Penn . Coming to Philadelphia, he managed (1732–41) the proprietary rights he inherited with his brothers and thereafter remained in charge of the colony's business in England.
Thomas Penn. Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. xxvii + 448 pp. $30. ISBN: 978–1–4391–9156–9. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core.
