Joseph Townsend

(1739-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816 DNB: Townsend, Joseph (1739–1816), geologist and writer LBT ID: JoTowns1816 VIAF ID: 100952368 LOC ID: n86800567	B/BAP: 1739-04-04 DIED: 1816-11-09
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Educated at Clare College, Cambridge and Edinburgh University, he was a member of the Countess of Huntingdon's circle, a Wiltshire clergyman, and author of Journey through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 (1791).
REFERENCES TO Joseph Townsend: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 15 April 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812