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ton, and a Baronet, born Dec. 13, 1778, succeeded his father 

 George Fcrrars, the late Marquis, July 27, 1811; married May 12, 

 1807, daughter of W. D. Gardner, Esq. 



This family have long flourished in the county of Norfolk. John 

 Townshend, son of Sir Roger, was of Raynham, in Norfolk, (the 

 present seat of this family), as appears by his will, dated 1465. His 

 son Roger was returned for Calne, and in the 1st. Edward V. was 

 constituted a Serjeant at Law ; the following year he was appointed 

 Justice of the Common Pleas, which office he retained till his death, 

 which happened in 1492 ; he m. Anne, daughter and co-heir of Sir 

 William de Brewse, Knt. and had a numerous issue ; from whom 

 descended Roger, who in 1617 was created a Baronet; wi. Mary, 

 second daughter of the celebrated Horatio Lord Vere, of Tilbury, 

 and had issue two sons and five daughters. Sir Roger d. Jan. 1, 

 1636. From this marriage descended Sir Horatio, 1st Viscount ; in 

 1660 he was elected for the county of Norfolk, and was deputed with 

 several other members to wait on the King at the Hague, and invite 

 him " to return to his dominions, and take the government thereof 

 into his own hands;" in consequence of his loyalty he was advanced 

 to the Peerage by the title of Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis, in 

 Norfolk, and in 1682 was created Viscount Townshend of Rayn- 

 ham ; by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Joseph Ashe, Bart, 

 he had three sons ; 1st, Charles, second Viscount ; 2d, Roger, d. 

 May 22, 1709 ; 3d, Horatio, d. Oct. 24, 1751. He was succeeded 

 by his eldest son, 



Charles, second Viscount, m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 

 Lord Pelham, father of Thomas Duke of Newcastle, who d May 

 11, 1711, leaving issue a daughter, Elizabeth, m. Charles, first 

 Earl of Cornwallis, and four sons ; 1st, Charles, the third Vis- 

 count ; 2d, Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1701, d. in May 1780 ; 3d, William, 

 b. Jan. 9, 1702, d. Jan. 29, 1738; 4th, Roger, d. unm. Aug. 7, 

 1760. His Lordship m. secondly, in July 1713, Dorothy, daughter 

 of Robert Walpole, of Houghton, co. Norfolk, and by her, who d. 

 March 29, 1726, had issue, 1st, George, a Rear Admiral of the 

 White, d. Aug. 9, 1762 ; 2d, Augustus, Captain in the East India 

 Service, d. in 1746 ; 3d, Horatio, d. in Feb. 1764 ; 4th, Richard, d. 

 young; 5th, Edward, Prebend of Westminster, b. May 11, 1726, 

 d. Jan. 27, 1765 ; 6th, Dorothy, m. in 1743 to Dr. Spencer Cowper, 

 d. in 1779 ; 7th, Mary, m. 1753, to Lieutenant-Gen. Edward Corn- 

 wallis, d. Dec. 29, 1776. His Lordship dying in June 1738, was 

 succeeded by 



