Education
Eton College.
Eton College.
The younger brother of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, he was appointed colonel of a newly raised regiment of Foot on 12 April 1706. He also sat in Parliament for Norfolk from 1701 to 1702, and again from 1705 to 1708, and then Yarmouth from 1708 until his death in 1709.
1st Parliament of Great Britain. 2nd Parliament of Great Britain.