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See also:TOWNSHEND, See also:GEORGE TOWNSHEND, 1ST See also:MARQUESS (1724-1807) , eldest son of See also:Charles, 3rd See also:Viscount Townshend (1700-1764), and See also:brother of the politician Charles Townshend (q.v.), was See also:born on the 28th of See also:February 1724, his godfather being George I. Joining See also:Cope's dragoons as a See also:captain, he saw some service in the See also:Netherlands in 1745, and as a member of the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland's See also:staff was See also:present at See also:Culloden. Afterwards he accompanied the duke to the Netherlands, and was present at Lauffeld. By 1750 he had become See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel' in the 1st See also:Foot See also:Guards, but See also:differences with the duke of Cumberland led to his retirement in that See also:year. This difference soon became hostility, and, coupled with his dread of permanent armies, caused him to give vehement support to the See also:Militia See also:Bill. In
this See also:matter his views and his methods of expressing them raised up a See also:host of enemies. The retirement of the duke after the disastrous See also:campaign in See also:North See also:Germany in 1757 brought Townshend back to active service as a colonel, and in 1758 he sailed for North See also:America as one of See also:Wolfe's three brigadiers. In the See also:long and painful operations against See also:Quebec he showed himself a capable officer, but his almost open dissatisfaction with Wolfe's methods sensibly added to the difficulty of the enterprise. At the See also:battle of the Heights of See also:Abraham the command, on the See also:death of Wolfe and the wounding of Monckton, devolved upon Townshend, whose over-caution for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time imperilled the success of the See also:British arms. The loss of Montcalm, however, had similarly paralyzed the See also:French, and the crisis passed. Townshend sent See also:home a despatch, announcing the fall of Quebec, which at once became the See also:butt of the wits and the See also:object of See also:criticism of a more serious See also:kind; and when, Monckton having taken over the command in See also:Canada, Townshend returned to See also:England to enjoy, as he hoped, the See also:hero-See also:worship of the public, he was soon involved in See also:bitter controversies. He succeeded to the See also:title in 1764 on his See also:father's death, and in 1767, through his brother's See also:influence, was made See also:lord-lieutenant of See also:Ireland. The See also:story of his See also:vice-See also:royalty may be read in the See also:article on him in the See also:Diet. Nat. Biog., and in See also:Lecky's See also:History of England in the 18th See also:Century (vol. iv.). Witli the best will in the See also:world, and in spite of excellent capacity, he came into continual conflict with the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons in his See also:attempt to See also:form an See also:English party in Ireland, and he excited unmeasured abuse. In 1772 he was recalled. In 1787 he was created Marquess Townshend of Rainham. He died on the 14th of See also:September 1807.
Townshend was twice married—first to See also:Charlotte, Baroness de Ferrars (d. 1770) and secondly to See also:Anne See also:Montgomery (d. 1819). His eldest son George (1755-1811), who became the second marquess, had succeeded to the See also:barony of de Ferrars in 1770 and had been created See also:earl of See also:Leicester in 1784. Although he was in turn See also:master of the See also:mint, See also:joint postmaster-See also:general and lord steward of the royal See also:household, he did not take much See also:part in politics, but showed a See also:great See also:taste for antiquarian studies. His See also:elder son, George Ferrars Townshend, the 3rd marquess (1778-1855), was disinherited by his father for conduct which also compelled him to reside outside England. When he died at See also:Genoa in See also:December 1855 the earldom of Leicester became See also:extinct. The marquessate, however, passed to a See also:cousin, See also:John Townshend (1798-1863), who became the 4th marquess. John See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Dudley See also:Stuart Townshend (b. 1866), who became the 6th marquess in 1899, came prominently before the public in 1906 in consequence of a judicial inquiry into his sanity, the decision being that he was not capable of managing his own affairs.
End of Article: TOWNSHEND, GEORGE TOWNSHEND, 1ST MARQUESS (1724-1807)
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