Thomas Pownall, an English statesman, born in Lincoln in 1722, died in Bath, Feb. 25, 1805. He emigrated to America in 1753, and in 1757 was appointed governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He was recalled at his own request, and succeeded Sir Francis Bernard as lieutenant governor of New Jersey in 1760, and soon afterward became governor of South Carolina. In 1761 he returned to England, was made comptroller general of the expenditures of the army in Germany, and in 1768 was elected to parliament. He earnestly opposed the measures of the government against the colonies. After being three times returned to parliament, he retired in 1780, and passed the remainder of his life in antiquarian studies. He was the author of a great number of works, including " Principles of Polity" (1752); "Administration of the Colonies" (1764); "Description of the Middle States of America" (1776); "A Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe on the State of Affairs between the Old and the New World" (1780); "A Memorial to the Sovereigns of America" (1783); " Notices and Descriptions of the Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul" (1788); and " Intellectual Physics" (1795).