Thomas Townshend

Thomas Townshend may refer to:

  • Thomas Townshend (MP) (1701-1780), British MP
  • Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), British politician, son of the above
  • Tom Townsend, secret identity of Captain Flag

Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or townshend:

    “The masses of the sea
    The masses of the sea under
    The masses of the infant-bearing sea
    Erupt, fountain, and enter to utter for ever
    Glory glory glory
    The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis’ thunder.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “But neither steele nor stony breast
    Are proof against those lookes of thine,
    Nor can a Beauty lesse divine
    Of any heart be long possest,
    Where thou pretend’st an interest.”
    —Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)