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Thomas Oliver (Lieutenant Governor)Thomas Oliver (January 5, 1733 - November 29, 1815), the last Royal Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1753, and resided at 33 Elmwood Avenue, Cambridge, taking little part in public affairs until, upon the death of Andrew Oliver, he was appointed by the King, at the suggestion of Thomas Hutchinson, who believed him a brother. A mob of five thousand angry citizens forced him to resign on September 2, 1774. He fled to Boston, remaining there for a year, and when the British troops sailed to Halifax in March of 1776, went with them, going on to England. He was proscribed under the Massachusetts Banishment Act in 1778, and his estate confiscated. Afterwards the Continental Army used his house, known as Elmwood, as a hospital. It was then sold at auction, becoming first the property of Arthur Cabot, then of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and then Rev. Charles Lowell, who passed it on to his son, James Russell Lowell. Oliver, Thomas Oliver, Thomas
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