Thomas Povey
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Thomas Povey
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Thomas Povey FRS, was a London merchant-politician. He was active in colonial affairs from the 1650s, but neutral enough in his politics to be named a member from 1660 of Charles II's Council for Foreign Plantations. A powerful figure in the not-yet professionalised First English Empire, he was both "England's first colonial civil servant" and at the same time "a typical office holder of the Restoration". Both Samuel Pepys and William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, railed at times against Povey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Povey
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2010-08-06T21:45:43Z
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2024-09-13T08:47:28Z
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