Thomas Townshend
1st Viscount Sydney (1789 - 1800)
1st Baron Sydney (1783 - 1800)
1st Baron Sydney (1783 - 1800)
Haec Generi Incrementa Fides
- Né le 24 février 1733
- Décédé le 30 juin 1800, à l'âge de 67 ans
Parents
- Thomas Townshend (1701 - 1780), Member of Parliament for Winchelsea, Member of Parliament for Hastings
- Albinia Selwyn (1705 - 1739)
Famille
- Marié le 19 mai 1760, avec Elizabeth Powys (1736 - 1826), dont
- John Thomas (1764 - 1831)
- Frances (1772 - 1854)
- Harriet (1773 - 1814)
Occupations
- Member of Parliament for Whitchurch (1754)
- paymaster of the Forces (1767 - 1768)
- leader of the House of Commons (1782 - 1789)
- leader of the House of Lords (1783 - 1789)
- president of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations (1784 - 1786)
- president of the Board of Control (1784 - 1790)
- justice in eyre south of the Trent (1789 - 1800)
- privy counsellor
- home secretary (1782 - 1783)
- secretary at War (1782)