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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (24 February 1733 – 30 June 1800) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney. He held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century.
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (1733-1800) was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay. He chose Arthur Phillip as governor; on 26 January 1788, Phillip named Sydney Cove in honour of Sydney and the settlement became known as Sydney Town.
Thomas Townshend was elevated to the peerage with the title of ‘Baron Sydney’ in 1783. As Home Secretary in the British Parliament, he was responsible for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay in Australia.
Thomas Townshend, first Viscount Sydney PC (1733–1800), British politician, was instrumental in implementing his government’s 1786 decision to establish a penal colony on the east coast of Australia. Townshend was first elected to the House of Commons in 1754.
City of Sydney Archives, 006261. Thomas (Tommy) Townshend, first Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), politician, was born in London on 24 February 1733, the eldest son of Thomas Townshend (1701-1780), politician. He was educated at Eton (1748) and later at Cambridge, graduating with an MA in 1753.
William L. Clements Library. Abstract: The Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney papers contain the official letters of Lord Sydney, spanning his entire political career, as well as material related to his grandfather, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1664-1738); his father, the Honorable Thomas Townshend (1701-1780); and his son ...
Thomas Townshend, later to be the 1st Viscount Sydney, was born in February 1733 in Raynham, Norfolk. His father, also Thomas Townshend, was the second son of the 2nd Viscount Townshend, who was known as Turnip Townshend because of his work in developing the idea of crop rotation, and thus the productivity of agricultural land.
