Tomasz Adam Ostrowski
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Count Tomasz Adam Ostrowski |
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| Born |
December 21, 1735 Ostrów, near Kock, Poland |
| Died | February 5, 1817 (aged 81) Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Noble family | Ostrowski |
| Spouse(s) |
Józefa Godlewska Apolonia Ledóchowska Apolonia Brzozowska |
| Father | Piotr Ostrowski |
| Mother | Konstancja Stoińska |
Count Tomasz Adam Ostrowski (December 21, 1735 – February 5, 1817) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), politician, spokesman, statesman and Count since 1798.
Tomasz became Colonel of the Crown Army in 1765, Chamberlain of King Stanisław II Augustus in 1767, castellan of Czersk since 1777, Court Treasurer since 1791, Marshal of the Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 and later President of the Senate of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland.
He was a member of the Permanent Council (Rada Nieustająca), and an opponent of the Targowica Confederation. He was a member of the "Zgromadzenie Przyjaciół Konstytucji Rządowej" (Friends of the May 3 Constitution). He was politically tied to King Stanisław II Augustus, and he also participated in the "Thursday dinners" held annually by the king in his palace in Warsaw.
He was the founder of Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Son of Piotr Ostrowski and Konstancja Stoińska. In 1765 he married Józefa Godlewska, with whom he had a daughter Julia. After the death of Józefa in 1780 he married Apolonia Ledóchowska (in 1781), with whom he had nine children most notably Antoni Jan Ostrowski, General Commander of the National Guard during the November Uprising and Władysław Ostrowski, Marshal of the Sejm of the Polish Kingdom in 1830. After the death of his second wife in 1795, Ostrowski married Apolonia Kunegunda Brzozowska.
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