became the Lord-lieutenant of Ireland. He was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount...
ministry. These include Lord Eldon as Lord High Chancellor, former Foreign Secretary Lord Hawkesbury as Home Secretary, Lord Harrowby as Foreign Secretary...
Townshend and the half-brother of George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, LordJohnTownshend and Lord Charles Townshend. On 21 September 1822, he was appointed...
Audrey Etheldreda Townshend, born Audrey Etheldreda Harrison, became Lady Lynn and later Viscountess Townshend (1708 – 5 March 1788) was a celebrated English...
Charles Fox Townshend (28 June 1795 – 1817) was the founder of the Eton Society. Townshend was the eldest son of LordJohnTownshend, second son of George...
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal...
The Townshend Acts (/ˈtaʊnzənd/) or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes...
Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC (12 December 1767 – 18 February 1831), born in Badminton, England, was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator...
1782, he returned to the post in a coalition government with his old enemy, Lord North, in 1783. However, the King forced Fox and North out of government...
supported by the Duke of Grafton against the government candidate, LordJohnTownshend, he subsequently voted with the administration. He was appointed...
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