George Townshend, first marquess Townshend

(1724-1807)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724-1807 NRA: Townshend George (1724-1807) 1st Marquess Townshend Field Marshal DNB: Townshend, George, first Marquess Townshend (1724-1807), politician and caricaturist LBT ID: LdTowns1 VIAF ID: 43859374 LOC ID: no90024792	B/BAP: 1724-02-28 DIED: 1807-09-14
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Military officer who fought at Culloden and in the Quebec campaign; he was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1767-72) where he acquired a reputation for corruption.
REFERENCES TO George Townshend, first marquess Townshend: William Ponsonby to Lady Caroline Lamb, 20 April 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XII Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) JAMES MATHIAS Found 1: ¶ 20 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 5