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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 Lord John Townshend Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (19 January 1757 – 23 February 1833), styled The Honourable John Townshend until 1787, was a British Whig (British political faction), Whig politician. Background Townshend ...

, younger son of

George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (28 February 172414 September 1807), known as The Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a Great Britain, ...

. His mother was Georgiana Anne Poyntz. He served in the

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and achieved the rank of

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. 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

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. 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 Charles John Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk, 10th Earl of Berkshire (7 November 1804 – 14 August 1876), styled Viscount Andover between 1820 and 1851, was a British peer and Whig (British political faction), Whig politician from the Howard famil ...

and had issue. She married secondly, General

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. *James Dudley Browlow Stuart Townshend (d. 1846), unmarried *Anne Maria Townshend (d. 1899), married Alexander Sherson *Elizabeth Clementina Townshend (d. 1910), married John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan and had issue * John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend (1831–1899) Lord Townshend died in September 1863, aged 65, as result of a fall from his horse in the grounds of his home,

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, and was buried at East Raynham,

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. His death place is named as Raynham Park. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son John. Lady Townshend died in 1877.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

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