TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR ROBERT TOWNSEND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Oct 1776; adm. 6 Jun 1787; KS 1789; Writer, EICS Madras 10 Sep 1793; Assistant to Accountant, Board of Revenue 1796; Assistant to Resident, Amboyna (now Ambon, Indonesia) and Banda 1797, Deputy Commercial Resident 1798, Commercial Resident 1798-1802; Commissioner for adjusting British claims in the Moluccas 1802; Lieut. -Gov., Prince of Wales Island 1804-6; Governor of Mauritius 1810-23, where he successfully suppressed the slave trade; created baronet 21 Aug 1821; assumed additional surname of Townsend 19 Jul 1824; MP Newton (Lancs. ) Feb 1825-6, Hythe from 1826; Director, East India Co., 1826-8; author, Suggestions for counteracting any injurious effects upon the population of the West Indian colonies from the abolition of the Slave Trade 1807; m. 10 Jan 1809 Maria Frances Geslip, second dau. of Joseph Francis Louis de Latour, firm Francis Latour & Co, agents, Madras; d. 16 Mar 1830. DNB.
TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR MINTO WALTER, BART., second son of Sir Walter Minto Townsend-Farquhar, Bart., MP, and Erica Catherine Mackay, natural dau. of Eric Mackay, 7th Baron Reay (S) (qv); grandson of Sir Robert Townsend Townsend-Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 18 Dec 1837; adm. 6 Jun 1849 (G); an intimate friend of Francis Markham (qv), who refers to him frequently in his Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster; two curious experiences of his when at school are related in Elizabethan xiii, 86-7; at Haileybury Coll. 1855-7; Writer, EICS Madras 1857; resigned in England 22 May 1861; succ. brother as 4th baronet 16 May 1867; [m. ?]; d. 8 Jun 1872.
TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR JOHN HENRY, BART., brother of Sir Minto Walter Townsend-Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 2 Aug 1839; adm. 5 Apr 1853; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1856; Cornet, unattached 4 Nov 1856; Lieut., 7th Bengal Light Cavalry 23 Jan 1857; 2nd Bengal European Cavalry 1 May 1858; Capt., 1 Jan 1862; Sub-Assistant, Stud Dept., 30 Nov 1863; Brevet Maj., 2 Oct 1872; retired 1874; served in Indian Mutiny; wounded at Chinhut and one of the defenders of Lucknow; succ. brother as 5th baronet 8 Jun 1872; d. 14 Aug 1877.
TOWNSEND, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 27 Apr 1775.
TOWNSEND, SAMUEL; b.; adm. 17 Jul 1780. [“see new slip”]
TOWNSEND, SAMUEL; b.; adm. 24 Jul 1776, chorister.
TOWNSEND, RICHARD, brother of James Smith Townsend (qv); bapt. Honiton 11 Aug 1801 (IGI); adm. 21 Jan 1811; KS (aged 12) 1814; left 13 Dec 1817.
TOWNSEND, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1730.
TOWNSEND, JOHN HONEYWOOD, brother of James Smith Townsend (qv); b. 17 Jun 1802; adm. 24 May 1815 (G); attorney, practising at Honiton, Devon, from 1828; Mayor of Honiton 1847; m. Jul 1834 Anne, eldest dau. of Rev. John Gaius Copleston, Rector of Offwell, Devon; d. 13 Feb 1858.
TOWNSEND, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1728/9; in school list 1731.