Lionel Copley

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Sir Lionel Copley was royal governor of the Maryland colony from 1692 through 1693. He was the first official royal governor appointed by the British crown after the colony was removed from the proprietary control of the Calvert family during the Glorious Revolution [1].

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  1. ^ Sir Lionel Copley's grandfather, Lionel Copley (Died 1675), ironmaster is noted in ODNB. Article by David Hey, ‘Copley, Lionel (d. 1675)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 17 May 2008.
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