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Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend KCH (11 September 1785 – 28 June 1842), was a British naval commander and

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politician. Townshend was the younger son of

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, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet. He was the nephew of

Charles Townshend Charles Townshend (28 August 1725 – 4 September 1767) was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the Ame ...

and the half-brother of

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 ...

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and

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.Burke, John
''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Volume II, p. 550.''
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1832. On 21 September 1822, he was appointed major-commandant of the Norfolk Yeomanry Rangers, in place of his brother Lord Charles. Townshend was a

captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

in the

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. He was also appointed a captain in the Norfolk Rangers of

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on 18 April 1831. In 1818 he was returned to parliament as one of two representative for

Helston Helston ( kw, Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately east of Penzance and south-west of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map shee ...

, a constituency mainly controlled by his brother-in-law, the

Duke of Leeds Duke of Leeds was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1694 for the prominent statesman Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen, who had been one of the Immortal Seven in the Revolution of 1688. He had already succeeded as ...

. He lost his seat in 1832 when the representation was reduced to one member, but was once again elected in 1835. This time he held the seat until 1837. Townshend married Elizabeth, daughter of Provo Featherstone Wallis and sister of

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, on 13 June 1813. He died in June 1842, aged 56.

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