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.

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-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.

TOWNSON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).

TOWNSON, ROBERT, son of Right Rev. Robert Townson DD, Bishop of Salisbury, previously Dean of Westminster, and Margaret, widow of William Townley, All Hallows, Bread Street, London, and dau. of John Davenant, London; bapt. 18 May 1606; adm.; KS in 1619; Queens’ Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1620; BA 1623/4; MA 1627; Fellow, Queens’ Coll. 1625; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 20 Sep 1629; Prebendary of Salisbury from 22 Sep 1632; dead by 16 Oct 1633.

TRAVERS, PETER; b.; adm.; KS in 1613; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1617, adm. scholar 1618, matr. Easter 1618; BD 1631/2; ordained; Curate, Billinge, Lancs., 1626; Rector of Bury, Lancs., 1633-54; Rector of Halsall, Lancs., 1634 - ejectment c. 1645; m. Dorothy, dau. of Peter Wynn; d. c. 1654.

TRAY, RICHARD, son of Rev. Richard Tray, Vicar of Bredhurst, Kent, and his first wife; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1629; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1633, adm. scholar 1634, matr. Easter 1636; BA 1636/7; MA 1640; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 20 May 1638; Vicar of Milton, Kent 24 Feb 1653/4; Vicar of Bredhurst, Kent, from 1657; Rector of Murston, [check county], from 1659; lic. to m. 30 May 1639 his step-sister Elizabeth Chapman; buried Bredhurst, Kent 26 Oct 1664.

TRAY, WILLIAM, brother of Richard Tray (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1633; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1636, matr. 15 Jul 1636, aged 17, still Westminster Student 1642; BA 1640; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 17 Dec 1641.

TREBECK, JAMES, son of Rev. Andrew Trebeck DD, Rector of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and Mary, dau. of Hadesley Greene, Shelley Hall, Essex; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1741 (Levett's); KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1746 - void 1753 (expiry year of grace as R. Shelley from 3 Mar 1753); BA 1750; MA 1753; ordained; Rector of Shelley, Essex 1752-68; Rector of Hutton, Essex 24 Dec 1762-81; Rector of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London, from 9 Dec 1768; Vicar of Chiswick, Middlesex, from 30 Mar 1781; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III from 1782 (still 1793); m. 26 Jan 1762 Mary Davies, Harwich, Essex; d. 1 Jul 1808.

TREBECK, JAMES, son of James Trebeck (adm. 1741, qv); b.; adm. 17 Jan 1775; KS 1779; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1783, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1783, scholar 19 Apr 1784; BA 1787; MA 1791; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Apr 1785, called to bar 5 Feb 1793; a City Common Pleader 1793; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1798-1831 (when post abolished); d. 24 Oct 1849, aged 82.