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, 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, 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.

TOWNLEY, ZOUCH, of Lancashire (“arm. fil., nat. max”); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1615, matr. Dec 1618, aged 17, Westminster Student to death; BA 1618; MA 1621; Deputy Public Orator, Oxford Univ.; as such delivered William Camden”s funeral oration, printed Camdeni Insignia, 1624; “esteemed a noted orator and philosopher” (Wood, Fasti Oxon., i, 397); d. 1638.

TOWNE, ERNEST JOSIAH, son of Joseph Towne, St. Helen’s Place, Bishopsgate, London, solicitor, and Louisa —; b. 27 Jul 1829; adm. 12 Feb 1844 (Scott's); QS 1844; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1848, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1848, scholar 1849; BA 1852; ordained deacon 26 Jun 1853 (Durham), priest 1854; Curate Ewell, Surrey, Chester-le-Street, co. Durham, and Langley, Essex; Vicar of Forcett, Yorks., 1863-77; Vicar of Bothenhampton, Dorset 1877-81; Chaplain to Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1881-1903; m. 24 Jun 1857 Isabella Sheppee (IGI)

TOWERS, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. John Towers DD, Bishop of Peterborough, and Mary ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1629; KS 1630; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, aged 17, still Westminster Student c. 1642 (no longer 1650); BA 1638; MA 1641; BD 1646; ordained deacon 16 Apr 1641, priest 19 Apr 1641 (both Peterborough); Prebendary of Peterborough 20 Apr 1641; Rector of Barnack, Northants 1644; took refuge in Oxford until its surrender; ejected from his preferments; served as Curate, Upton, Northants; restored to preferments at Restoration; Rector of Fiskerton, Lincs., from 1662; author, Atheismus Vapulans, 1654, and other works; m. Frances ---; d. 20 Oct 1666. DNB.

TOWERS, GEORGE, only son of Rev. George Towers, Vicar of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Tarrant, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, attorney; b.; in school list 1754; KS (aged 14) 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 - void 1767; adm. Middle Temple 31 Jul 1762; d. 5 Jun 1767.

TOVEY, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645, matr. Easter 1646; BA 1648/9.

TOUNLEY, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451). [Perhaps William Townley, son of William Townley, All Hallows, Bread Street, London, and Margaret Davenant (afterwards mother of Robert Townson (qv)); bapt. 4 Sep 1603; Queens’ Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1620].

TOUNDROW, HENRY, son of Thomas Toundrow, Burton on Trent, Staffs., and Maria Dickenson (IGI); bapt. Burton on Trent, Staffs. 5 Jan 1730 (IGI, sic); adm. (aged 10) May 1743 (Heath's); KS 1747; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr. 1751; ordained; Rector of Pentlow, Essex, from Feb 1765; buried Pentlow, Cambs., 26 Apr 1769.