The son of Peregrine Towneley; he was Lord of Bowland (1846-76), MP for Sligo Borough (1848-52), and High Sheriff of Lancashire (1857).

REFERENCES TO Charles Towneley:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 September 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)