Background
He was the son of John Townshend and Joan Lumford and studied at Lincoln"s Inn (of which he was elected a governor in 1461 and a reader in 1468 and 1471).
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Roger Townshend
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He was returned to Parliament for Bramber in 1467 and for Calne in 1472 and was made a Serjeant-at-Law in 1477. In June 1483 he was made a King"s Serjeant and in 1484 was made Third Justice of the Court of Common Pleas after the promotion of John Catesby. He was knighted in 1485 and after Catesby"s death in 1486 he was made Second Justice.
He retired in 1493 and died in 1500.
