monarch death_date nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place imagesize order term_start spouse image name predecessor birth_place party successor primeminister article_title
george iii george iii george iii 30 june 1800 british 24 february 1733 2 april 1783 5 june 1789 23 august 1786 clare college , cambridge sidcup , kent 200px home foreign plantations secretary president of the committee on trade and 10 july 1782 23 december 1783 5 march 1784 elizabeth powys -lrb- 1736-1826 -rrb- 1stviscountsydney.jpg the viscount sydney the grantham -lrb- first lord of trade -rrb- earl of shelburne the earl temple the lord raynham , norfolk whig lord -lrb- president of the board of trade -rrb- north the lord grenville the earl of liverpool the pitt the younger earl of shelburne william pitt the younger william thomas townshend , 1st viscount sydney

thomas townshend , 1st viscount sydney

thomas townshend , 1st viscount sydney pc -lrb- 24 february 1733 -- 30 june 1800 -rrb- , was a british politician who held several important cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century .
his most enduring legacy is probably that the cities of sydney in nova scotia , canada , and sydney in new south wales , australia are named in his honour , in 1785 and 1788 respectively .
