Thomas L. Winthrop

Thomas L. Winthrop
13th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In officeMay 26, 1825 – January 9, 1833
Governor	Levi Lincoln Jr.
Preceded by	Marcus Morton
Succeeded by	Samuel Turell Armstrong
Personal details
Born	Thomas Lindall WinthropMarch 6, 1760 New London, Connecticut Colony, British America
Died	February 22, 1841(1841-02-22) (aged 80) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse	Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple ​ ​ (m. 1785; death 1825)​
Children	6, including Robert
Education	Harvard University
Occupation	Politician

Thomas Lindall Winthrop (March 6, 1760 – February 22, 1841) was a Massachusettspolitician who served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1826 to 1833. He was elected both a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[1] in 1813 and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1837.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Winthrop was born in New London, Connecticut. He was a son of John Still Winthrop (1720–1776)^[4] and Jane Borland Winthrop (1732–1760) and younger brother of Francis Bayard Winthrop (1754–1817).^[5]

Through his paternal grandparents, Ann Dudley (1684–1776) and John Winthrop, F.R.S. (1681–1747), he was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family, a line that originates with Thomas Dudley—founder of Massachusetts and Winthrop's great-great-grandfather. His paternal great-grandfathers were Joseph Dudley (1647–1720) and Wait Still Winthrop (1641/2–1717).^[6]

He entered Yale in 1776 but left and graduated at Harvard in 1780. He was a lawyer and served as Treasurer for the Kennebek Proprietors in the late 18th century.^[7]

Career

In 1813, he was elected both a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[1] and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.^[2]

From 1826 to 1833, Winthrop served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts and also served as a state representative and senator.^[5]

Personal life

Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple

In 1785, he married Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769–1825), daughter of Sir John Temple, the first British envoy to the United States.^[8][5] and Elizabeth Bowdoin (1750–1809), daughter of James Bowdoin, who later became Governor of Massachusetts.^[9] Together, they were the parents of:^[10][6][11]

• Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple Winthrop (1787–1860), who married Benjamin Tappan (1788–1863)
• Sarah Bowdoin Winthrop (1788–1864), who married George O'Sullivan (1783–1866), the son of Governor James Sullivan
• Anna Winthrop (died 1850), who married Dr. John Collins Warren (1778–1856) in October 1843.^[12]
• George Winthrop (1805–1875)
• Grenville Temple Winthrop (1807–1853), who married Frances Maria Heard^[13]
• Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), who served as a U.S. Senator and the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

He died in Boston on February 22, 1841.

Descendants

Through his son Robert, he was the great-great-great-grandfather of John Kerry, the U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State.

References

Notes

1. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W"(PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
2. American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
4. "John Still Winthrop (1720 - 1776)". www.harvardartmuseums.org. Harvard University Portrait Collection. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
5. "Winthrop Family Papers, 1537-1990". www.masshist.org. Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
6. Whitmore, William Henry (1856). An Account of the Temple Family: With Notes and Pedigree of the Family of Bowdoin : Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, with Corrections and Additions. Dutton & Wentworth. p. 12. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
7. "Plymouth Company Records, box 4/14, ca. 1798". mainememory.net. 1798. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
8. "Mrs. Thomas Lindall Winthrop (Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple)". NYPL Digital Collections. New York Public Library. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
9. North, Louise V. (2014). The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston: North America and Lower Canada, 1796–1800. Lexington Books. p. 13. ISBN 9780739195512. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
10. Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
11. Salisbury, Edward Elbridge; Salisbury, Evelyn McCurdy (1892). Family Histories and Genealogies: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs on the Families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and Notes on the Families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a Notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With Twenty-nine Pedigree-charts and Two Charts of Combined Descents. Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
12. Butler, M.D., S. W.; Parrish, M.D., Joseph (1854). The New Jersey Medical Reporter and Transactions of the New Jersey Medical Society. S. W. Butler, M.D. p. 362. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
13. Linzee, John William (1917). The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain: Including the Probates at Somerset House, London, England, of All the Spellings of the Name Lindeseie from 1300 to 1800. Priv. Print. [The Fort Hill Press]. p. 771. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

Sources

• Fowler, William (1980). The Baron of Beacon Hill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-27619-5. OCLC 163369557.
• Walett, Francis (September 1950). "James Bowdoin, Patriot Propagandist". The New England Quarterly. 23 (3): 320–338. doi:10.2307/361420. JSTOR 361420.
• Winthrop, Robert (1852). The Life and Service of James Bowdoin. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 9780608394275. OCLC 296634.
• The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, 4th Ed., Little Brown and Company, 1864, p. 675 Internet Archive