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DUNN-GARDNER, JOHN, eldest surviving son of John Margetts, St. Ives, Hunts., brewer, and Sarah, wife of George Ferrers Townshend, 3rd Marquis Townshend, and dau. of William Dunn Gardner, Chatteris, Isle of Ely; b. 20 Jul 1811; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Nov 1828; assumed surname of Townshend in lieu of Margetts 1823, and known for some years as Lord John Townshend; subsequently assumed courtesy title of Earl of Leicester, but was declared by an Act of Parliament passed in 1843 to have no right to that title; assumed surname of Dunn-Gardner in lieu of Townshend 10 Aug 1843; MP (Cons) Bodmin 1841-7; DL Cambridgeshire, High Sheriff Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1859; JP Isle of Ely; a collector of early English and foreign silver (sold Christies Apr 1902 for £39, 020); m. 1st, 9 Dec 1847 Mary, sister of Richard Lawson (qv); m. 2nd, 15 Mar 1853 Ada, dau. of William Pigott, Dullingham House, Newmarket, Cambs.; d. 11 Jan 1903.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.