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Thomas Pownall (bapt. 4 September 1722 N.S. – 25 February 1805) was a British colonial official 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.
POWNALL, THOMAS. (1722–1805). Colonial governor. Born on 4 September 1722 and educated at Lincoln and Trinity College (Cambridge), after 1743 Thomas Pownall entered the office of the Board of Trade, where his brother was secretary.
1 de jan. de 2018 · English colonial administrator and Governor of Massachusetts, Pownall was an early critic of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. He published his criticism under the title A Letter from Governor Pownall to Adam Smith in 48 large quarto pages late in 1776.
Thomas Pownall. 1722-1805. English colonial governor and antiquarian who sought to unite archaeology with history. Elected to membership in the Society of Antiquaries (1768), Pownall investigated prehistoric burial mounds and Roman ruins.
Biography. Amateur landscape artist; Governor of Massachusetts 1757-59; upon his return to England in 1760, he became an MP and throughout his political career gained a reputation as an expert on American affairs, writing extensively about the issues and conflicts between Britain and the colonies. 16 related objects. print.
Thomas Pownall was a British colonial official who served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1757 to 1760. Following a brief tenure in Hanover, Pownall returned to London where he set about writing a treatise on the relationship between Britain and its American colonies.
HOMAS POWNALL'S The Administration of the Colonies is remarkable in political literature, not only for the timeliness of its first publication, but for the way in which subsequent editions kept pace with changing events. It was first published as a pamphlet early in I764.
