Charles Townshend, second viscount Townshend

(1674-1738)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Townshend, Charles Townshend, Viscount, 1674-1738 NRA: Townshend Charles (1674-1738) 2nd Viscount Townshend statesman DNB: Townshend, Charles, second Viscount Townshend (1674–1738), politician, diplomatist, and agricultural innovator LBT ID: LdTowns2a VIAF ID: 18073467 LOC ID: n84001361	B/BAP: 1674-04-18 DIED: 1738-06-21
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Whig diplomat, statesman, and rival of Sir Robert Walpole; in retirement he experimented with crop rotation, acquiring the nickname Turnip Townshend.
REFERENCES TO Charles Townshend, second viscount Townshend: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 22 October 1845 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 6 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XXIII Appendix vol II Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 1: ¶ 13