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Lieutenant-Colonel H. Stuart Townend OBE MA (24 April 1909 – 26 October 2002) was a British military officer, athlete, headmaster, and politician. Townend was the first headmaster to educate an heir to the British throne, having founded Hill House School in 1951.
Townend is a 17th-century house in Troutbeck, in the civil parish of Lakes, north of Windermere, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. [1] The house was donated to the Trust in 1948; prior to this it was the home of the Browne family, local farmers, for 400 years.
Townend House and Cottage. Hugh Glover held the lands of Townend circa 1701-4 and in 1733 William Kelso of Dankeith sold the lands to George Boyd of East Overloan Farm. William Hay Boyd, Esq. of Her Majesty's 20th Regiment of Infantry in the Crimea [29] and was the owner of Townend House (NS 37652 31552) and estate in 1839. [24]
She also added a bath-house to the property. The property remains a heritage attraction in Christchurch. [2] [5] Townend donated land from the former Glenmark Estate to the Waipara community and funded the construction of St Paul's Church, a 12-room vicarage, and space for a cemetery in memory of her late father. [2] The church was opened in ...
The son of Charles Hope and Dorothy Townend, he was born on 12 June 1934 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, and educated at Hymers College in Hull. [2] [3] He studied accountancy from 1951 to 1957 as an articled clerk, and received the Plender Prize for the top prize when he became a Chartered Accountant.
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".)
Townend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include Notable people with the surname include Annie Quayle Townend (c.1845–1914), Australian-born New Zealand heiress and philanthropist
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (24 February 1733 – 30 June 1800) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney.