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Townshend, Townend, Thounhende, Tonsend, Touunend, Tounende, Touunsende, Towneend, Townsende, Townesende, Townesend, Tunsend. Townsend is a topographic surname of Yorkshire and Norfolk origin, indicating residence at the extremity of a city or burgh (from Middle English touun "village", "hamlet", "stead" + ende "end".)
The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act 1767 (7 Geo 3 c 46). [ d ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] This act represented the Chatham ministry 's new approach to generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
Townshend was born in Chiswick, West London, at the Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, in the UK.He came from a musical family: his father, Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force's dance band the Squadronaires and his mother, Betty (née Dennis), was a singer with the Sidney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras.
The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be ...
Townshend was born at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, as the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey Harrison. A sickly child, he later graduated from Leiden University and served in various political roles, including as a member of the Board of Trade, Lord of the Admiralty, Paymaster of the Forces, and Chancellor ...
According to Who guitarist Pete Townshend’s memoir, “Who I Am,” he wanted the group to call itself the Hair, but on Valentine’s Day of 1964, he relented, and the band settled on the Who ...
Townshend's experimentation with feedback and sound effects had an impact on Jimi Hendrix,[8] Jeff Beck,[9] and many rock guitarists have cited him as an influence such as Slash[10] and Eddie Vedder[11]. Thank you all. --Scieberking 08:40, 30 November 2009 (UTC) [transplanted from Sssoul's talk page, since it belongs here:]
Pete Townshend on writing for Roger Daltrey ("not easy"); losing Keith Moon and John Entwistle; and his new Audible Original, 'Somebody Saved Me.'