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Marquess Townshend / ˈ t aʊ n z ən d / is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by the Townshend family of Raynham Hall in Norfolk. The title was created in 1787 for George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend .
The Townshend family are an English aristocratic family headed by the Marquess Townshend. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
6th Marquess Townshend, 9th Viscount Townshend and Baron Townshend: Charles Marsham 1864–1933 5th Earl of Romney and Viscount Marsham, 7th Baron Romney: Reginald Hastings Marsham 1865–1922: Sydney Edward Marsham 1879–1952: George John Patrick Dominic Townshend 1916–2010 7th Marquess Townshend, 10th Viscount Townshend and Baron Townshend ...
3rd Marquess Townshend, 2nd Earl of Leicester, 6th Viscount Townshend and Baron Townshend, 18th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Compton: John Townshend 1798–1863 4th Marquess Townshend, 7th Viscount Townshend and Baron Townshend: Mary Elizabeth Marsham 1794–1847: Charles Marsham 1777–1845 2nd Earl of Romney and Viscount Marsham, 4th ...
The title was again bestowed upon George Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley and 8th Baron Compton, eldest son and heir apparent of George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, later the first Marquess Townshend. Townshend was a female-line great-great-great-grandson of Lady Lucy Sydney, daughter of the second Earl of the 1618 creation.
Arms of Townshend: Azure, a chevron ermine between three escallops argent. George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, PC, FRS (18 April 1753 – 27 July 1811), known as The Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1784 and as The Earl of Leicester from 1784 to 1807, was a British peer and politician.
Dorothy Townshend, Viscountess Townshend (née Walpole), was an English aristocrat, born on 18 September 1686 at Houghton Hall. She was the thirteenth child born to Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell. Sometime before 25 July 1713, she married [ 1 ] Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , and became his second wife.
Born the son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey Etheldreda Townshend (born Harrison), [1] Townshend was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge. [2] He joined the army as a volunteer in Summer 1743 and first saw action at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession . [ 3 ]
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