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George Townshend (Royal Navy officer) Admiral The Hon. George Townshend (29 October 1716 – August 1769) was a British naval commander. Naval career Townshend was the eldest son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, and his second wife Dorothy, sister of Prime Minister Si ...

(1715–1769), British naval commander *

George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, PC (28 February 172414 September 1807), known as The Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a British soldier and politician. After serving at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of t ...

(1724–1807), British field marshal, his nephew *

George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, PC, FRS (18 April 1753 – 27 July 1811), known as The Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1784 and as The Earl of Leicester from 1784 to 1807, was a British peer and politician. Background and ...

(1753–1811), British peer and politician, his son *

George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend George Ferrars Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend (13 December 1778 – 31 December 1855), previously known by the courtesy titles of Lord Chartley (from 1782 to 1807) and Earl of Leicester (from 1807 to 1811), was a British peer. His homosexu ...

(1778–1855), his son *

George Townshend (Baháʼí) George Townshend (1876–1957) was born in Ireland and was a well-known writer and Anglican clergyman who converted to the Baháʼí Faith at age 70. Baháʼí leader Shoghi Effendi named Townshend a Hands of the Cause, Hand of the Cause of God a ...

(1876–1957), author, promoter of the Bahá'í Faith *

George Townshend (priest) George Townshend was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland. Townshend was educated at Hertford College, Oxford and ordained in 1906. He served at Booterstown (Curate) and Ahascragh (Incumbent (ecclesiastical), Incumbent). He was Archdeacon of Clonfer ...

(fl. 1906–1947), Archdeacon of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh in the Church of Ireland *

George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend George John Patrick Dominic Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend (13 May 1916 – 23 April 2010), styled Viscount Raynham until 1921, was a British peer and businessman. Background Townshend was the only son of John Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshen ...

(1916–2010), great-great-great grandson of the 1st Marquess

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