Winthrop

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John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
his son John, 1606–76, English colonist in America: colonial governor of Connecticut 1657, 1659–76.
John or Fitz-John 1638–1707, American soldier and statesman: colonial governor of Connecticut 1698–1707 (son of the younger John Winthrop).
John, 1714–79, American astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.
Robert Charles, 1809–94, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1847–49.
a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
a male given name.

Winthrop

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John. 1588–1649, English lawyer and colonist, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony: the leading figure among the Puritan settlers of New England
his son, John. 1606–76, English lawyer and colonist; a founder of Agawan (now Ipswich), Massachusetts; governor of Connecticut

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Those who crave a more-godly relation to power should ponder a warning from John Winthrop, first governor of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, in “A Modell of Christian Charity“: “It is a true rule, that particular estates cannot subsist in the ruin of the public.”

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Admonitions like his and Winthrop’s made sense to conservatives such as Whittaker Chambers in the 1950s.

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Winthrop Rodgers, from the international affairs think tank Chatham House, said it would take "a major democratic transition by Turkey" to accommodate demands from Kurdish political parties.

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Max Winthrop, a member of the Law Society's Employment Law Committee, said: "I'd normally expect the spinal point on the higher grading to be maintained when a lower graded post was offered."

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As it evolved in the 19th century, this ideology held that the country was a promised land, the “city upon a hill” that Puritan leader John Winthrop of Massachusetts spoke of.

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