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John Townshend (other)
John Townshend may refer to: *Sir John Townshend (died 1603) (1560s–1603), MP and soldier, ancestor of the Marquesses Townshend, killed in a duel *Lord John Townshend (1757–1833), British Whig politician, MP for Cambridge University, Westminster and Knaresborough *John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (1798–1863), his son, British naval commander *John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend (1831–1899), his son, British peer and Liberal MP for Tamworth, 1856–1863 *John Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend (1866–1921), his son, British peer *John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764–1831), British peer *John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (1805–1890), his son, MP for Whitchurch, 1826–1831, Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward * John Townshend (cook), author of ''The Universal Cook'' See also *John Townend (1934–2018), British politician *John Townsend (other) {{hndis, Townshend, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend (died 1603)
Sir John Townshend MP (c.1568 – 2 August 1603), of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, was an English nobleman, politician, and knight. He was the son of Sir Roger Townshend (died 1590) and Jane Stanhope. He was also a soldier and Member of Parliament. He was killed in a duel with Sir Matthew Browne in August 1603. Family John Townshend was the eldest son of Sir Roger Townshend (died 1590) and his second wife, Jane Stanhope (c.1547–1618), the daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope (d.1552) of Shelford, Nottinghamshire, by his wife, Anne Rawson, daughter of Nicholas Rawson of Aveley, Essex. After the death of Sir Roger Townshend (died 1590), his widow, Jane, married, as his second wife, Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley. She died at her house in the Barbican on 3 January 1618, leaving a will dated 20 July 1617 which was proved by her grandson, Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet, on 10 March 1618. Career Townshend inherited considerable estates in Norfolk from his father, coming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord John Townshend
Lord John Townshend PC (19 January 1757 – 23 February 1833), styled The Honourable John Townshend until 1787, was a British Whig politician. Background Townshend was the second son of Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, by his first wife Charlotte Compton, 16th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley. George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, was his elder brother and Charles Townshend his uncle. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge. Political career Townshend was elected to the House of Commons for Cambridge University in 1780, a seat he held until 1784, and later represented Westminster from 1788 to 1790 and Knaresborough from 1793 to 1818. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1806 and served under Lord Grenville as Paymaster of the Forces (alongside Lord Temple) between 1806 and 1807. Family Townshend married in 1787 Georgiana Anne Fawkener, daughter of William Poyntz, and the divorced wife of William Fawkener. Their elder son Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend
Rear Admiral John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (28 March 1798 – 10 September 1863), known as John Townshend until 1855, was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and naval commander. Townshend was the son of Lord John Townshend, younger son of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend. His mother was Georgiana Anne Poyntz. He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of Rear-Admiral. Between 1847 and 1855 he also sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth. In the latter year he succeeded his first cousin in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords. Lord Townshend married Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart, daughter of Lord George Stuart, younger son of John Crichton-Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, on 18 August 1825. They had five children: *Lady Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend (d. 1926), married firstly, Greville Howard, son of Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk and had issue. She married secondly, General Redvers Henry Buller. *James Dudley Browlow Stuart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend
John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend (10 April 1831 – 6 October 1899), known as Viscount Raynham from 1855 to 1863, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament. Life Townshend was the son of John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend, and Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart. The soldier George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, was one of his paternal great-grandfathers, and Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was one of his maternal great-grandfathers. He was elected to the House of Commons for Tamworth in 1855 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1863, when he inherited the marquessate on his father's death and entered the House of Lords. In 1869 Townshend introduced a bill to Parliament making it unlawful for anyone but a parent to box a child's ears, and to permit no corporeal punishment of children except for flogging, known to English youth as "horsing". At the Salisbury Petty Sessions in May 1881, Lord Edward Thynne described how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend
John James Dudley Stuart Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend (17 October 1866 – 17 November 1921), known as Viscount Raynham from 1866 to 1899, was a British peer. Early life Townshend was the son of John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend, and Lady Anne Elizabeth Clementina Duff. His paternal grandfather was John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend and his maternal grandfather was James Duff, 5th Earl Fife. His father was a Member of Parliament for Tamworth before his elevation to the House of Lords in 1863. Career and peerage Upon the death of his father in 1899, he succeeded as the 11th Baronet Townshend of Rainham, the 9th Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis, the 6th Marquess Townshend of Raynham, and the 9th Viscount Townshend of Raynham. Lord Townshend served as the Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. Personal life Heavily in debt, Townshend was forced to sell many of the family's valuables, including nearly 200 masterpieces, including works by Thomas Gainsbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney
John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney of St Leonards (21 February 1764 – 20 January 1831) was a British peer and Member of Parliament. Early life Townshend was born on 21 February 1764. He was the eldest son of twelve children born to Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney of St Leonards and the former Elizabeth Powys (1736–1826). His mother was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte. Two of his brothers were also Members of Parliament, the Hon. Horatio George Powys Townshend and the Hon. William Augustus Townshend. Among his siblings were Hon Mary Elizabeth Townshend, who married John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham; Hon. Frances Townshend, who married George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor; Hon Harriet Katherine Townshend, who married their second cousin Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch. His paternal grandparents were Hon. Thomas Townshend MP (the second son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend and Hon. Elizabeth Pelham, the only surviving daughter an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney
John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (9 August 1805 – 14 February 1890), known as The Viscount Sydney between 1831 and 1874, was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. In a ministerial career spanning over 30 years, he was twice Lord Chamberlain, Lord Chamberlain of the Household and twice Lord Steward, Lord Steward of the Household. Background A member of the Townshend family headed by the Marquess Townshend, Sydney was the son of John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney, by his second wife Lady Caroline Elizabeth Letitia, daughter of Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim. He was educated at Eton College, Eton and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1824. Political career Sydney was first elected to parliament for Whitchurch (UK Parliament constituency), Whitchurch in 1826, a seat he held until 1831, when he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords. From 1828 to 1831 served Kings George IV and William IV as Groom of the Bedchamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townshend (cook)
''The Universal Cook'' is an English cookery book written in 1773 by John Townshend. Townshend was the owner of the Greyhound Tavern in Greenwich, England. On the title page of the book, Townsend stated that he was the "Cook to his Grace the Duke of Manchester". Reception The ''Universal Cook'' contains recipe A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. His ...s and household advice. One hint from Townshend was about how "To hinder wine from turning". His recommendation was to "put a pound of melted Lead in fair water into your cask pretty warm, and stop it close." In a commentary from 1807 by Thomas and Edward Percival, they note that "it must be supposed that Mr. Townshend is ignorant of the poisonous quality of Lead; but he is certainly deserving of censure for presuming to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townend
John Ernest Townend (12 June 1934 – 18 August 2018) was a British politician who was a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party. Early years The son of Charles Hope and Dorothy Townend, he was born on 12 June 1934 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, and educated at Hymers College in Hull. He studied accountancy from 1951 to 1957 as an articled clerk, and received the Plender Prize for the top prize when he became a Chartered Accountant. He then served in the Royal Air Force as a commissioned Pilot Officer from 1957 to 1959. In the latter year, he joined his family business as commercial secretary and finance director, becoming managing director (1961–1979) and then chairman of House of Townend wine merchants in Hull. He was Chairman of the Yorkshire and Humberside Wine and Spirit Merchants' Association (1975–76). In 1977, he became an Underwriter at Lloyds. Politics Townend was active in local politics and unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Hull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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