Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend
Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend (11 July 1700 – 12 March 1764), known as The Lord Lynn from 1723 to 1738, was a
Early life
Townshend was the eldest son of the Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend and his first wife Elizabeth Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, MP. He was educated at Eton and was admitted at King's College, Cambridge in 1718.[1] He then undertook a Grand Tour.[2]
Career
His Lordship erected and endowed at Raynham a charity school for clothing and educating thirty boys and twenty girls; the latter to be brought up in spinning. [4]
Family
On 29 May 1723, Townshend married
References
- ^ "Townshend, Charles (TWNT718C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c "TOWNSHEND, Hon. Charles (1700-64)". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68358. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
4.Townsend--Townshend, 1066-1909: the history, genealogy and alliances of the English and American house of Townsend by Margaret Tagliapietrae (Townsend) Publishdate 1909
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