TOWNSON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).
Townshend, Richard, 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.
Townshend, Harry Leigh, 1842-1924
TOWNSHEND, HARRY LEIGH, eldest son of Henry Townshend, Caldecote Hall, Warwicks., and Jane, dau. of John Shaw Leigh, Luton Hoo, Beds.; b. 27 Jun 1842; adm. 7 Jun 1855 (G); QS 1857; left 1858; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 9 Dec 1862; Lieut., 12th Foot 12 Sep 1865; Capt., 30 Jun 1877; retd. 7 Aug 1878; of Caldecote Hall, Warwicks.; JP Warwickshire 1883, High Sheriff 1901; m. 20 Oct 1880 Hon. Annie Ellen Brooks, dau. of Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw; d. 30 Apr 1924.
Townsend-Farquhar, Robert Townsend, 1776-1830
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, Minto Walter, 1837-1872
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, 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 Honeywood, 1802-1858
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, Edward Hume, 1803-1880
TOWNSEND, EDWARD HUME, only surviving son of Rev. Richard Townsend, Rector of Magourney, co. Cork, Prebendary of Cloyne, and Henrietta Murray, dau. of John Hume (qv); b. 3 Sep 1803; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Best's); left Christmas 1817; at Haileybury Coll. 1820-1; Writer, EICS Bombay 1821; Third Assistant to Commissioners, Deccan 31 Oct 1822; Assistant to Collector, Poona 22 Jan 1823; Secretary to Governor 6 Jun 1836; Assistant Magistrate, Poona 16 Jan 1839; Secretary, Revenue and Finance Depts., 1844; Revenue Commissioner, Southern Division 1847; res. 4 May 1851; m. 1829 Susan, fifth dau. of Rev. Horatio Townsend, Derry, co. Cork, Prebendary of Cork and of Ross, and his second wife; d. 23 Jan 1880.
Townsend, Abraham Boyle, 1791-1860
TOWNSEND, ABRAHAM BOYLE, brother of Maurice Fitzgerald Stephens Townshemnd (qv); b. 11 Oct 1791; adm.; KS 1806; left 1809; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Dec 1809, Canoneer Student 1809-27; BA 1813; MA 1816; ordained deacon 5 Dec 1819, priest 19 Dec 1819 (both Cork); Rector of Easthampstead, Berks., from 7 Aug 1826; d. unm. 5 Feb 1860.
Townroe, Edward John, 1920-2018
Townroe, Edward John, son of Bernard Stephen Townroe CBE DL, Chevalier Légion d’Honneur, Gen. Sec. United Assns. of Great Britain and France, and Marjory, d. of Sir William Collingwood KBE MICE, gen. man., Vulcan Foundry Ltd.; b. 14 Jan. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (H); left July 1938; St John’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938, BA 1942, MA 1948; ord. deacon 1943, priest 1944 (Durham); missioner Ford Estate Sunderland 1943; chaplain KCL at Warminster 1948, Warden 1956-85, FKC London 1959; Canon and Prebendary of Salisbury 1969-93, examining chaplain to the Bishop 1972; visiting Prof. St Bernard’s Seminary Rochester, New York, 1970 and 1974; author of Essays in the Study of Spirituality 1986; d. 17 July 2018.