GB-2014-WSA-16996
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Person
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ca. 1731-1783
TOWNSHEND, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Townshend, Castle Townshend, co. Cork, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Henry Becher, Creagh [check county]; b.; adm. (aged 16) Nov 1747 (Hart's); left 1749; High Sheriff, co. Cork 1753; MP (I) Co. Cork from 1759; a Commissioner of Excise (I) from 22 Jan 1773, and of Revenue (I) from 25 Dec 1773; m. 1752 Elizabeth, only dau. of John Fitzgerald, 15th Knight of Kerry; d. 23 Dec 1783.