Famous People with Name Winthrop

Winthrop Mackworth Praed            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Winthrop Mackworth Praed: was an English politician and poet.His mother belonged to the English branch of the New England family of Winthrop. In 1814 Praed was sent to Eton College, where he founded a manuscript periodical called Apis matina. This was succeeded in October 1820 by

Winthrop Rockefeller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winthrop Rockefeller: was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the Rockefeller family.

Winthrop Paul Rockefeller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winthrop Paul Rockefeller: was a Republican politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death. Rockefeller served from 1981 to 1995 on the Arkansas State Police Commission. In 1991, he was appointed by President George H.

Winthrop Murray Crane            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winthrop Murray Crane: was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 40th Governor of Massachusetts between 1900 and 1903. He also served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1904 until 1913. He was a Republican.

Winthrop Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winthrop Sargent: was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Shelburne County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1836 to 1840. In 1849, he was named a justice of the peace for Shelburne. Sargent served as customs collector from 1859 to 1866. He was named custos rotulorum in 1857 but refused the position. He served as a consul for the United States. He died in Barrington at the age of 72.

John Winthrop            Origin/Culture/Country:

John Winthrop: was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He graduated in 1732 at Harvard, where, from 1738 until his death he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. Professor Winthrop was one of the foremost men of science in America in the eighteenth century, and his influence on the early advance of science in New England in particular was very great. Both Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) probably owed to him much of their early interest in scientific research.

Thomas L. Winthrop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas L. Winthrop: was a Massachusetts politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1826 to 1833.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— a

Wait Winthrop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wait Winthrop: was a colonial magistrate, military officer, and politician of New England. Named Waitstill at birth, he preferred the shortened name "Wait". He was chief judge of the Massachusetts superior court (the highest court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay),

Fitz-John Winthrop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fitz-John Winthrop: was the governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1698 to 1707.