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En 1716-17 he was nominated lord-lieu- 
tenant of Ireland, but never repaired 
thither; he, however, acted as president 
of the council, was installed a knight of 
the garter,and, on the accession of George 
HI. was reimvested with thgseals of his 
office, as secretary of states .. 
Charles, the third viscount, first acted 
im the capacity of one of the gentlemen 
ef the bed-chamber to his majesty; he 
then became master or treasurer of the 
jewels, and died in 1764, at the age of 
sixty-four. 
George, the fourth viscount, and first 
marquis, was the eldest son of the for- 
mer nobleman, by Audrey, daughter and 
sole heiressof Edward Harrison, of Balls, 
m the county of Hertford, esq. formerly 
governor of Fort St. George, in the East 
Indies. He was born on February 28, 
1723-4, and when he was christened, 
which ceremony was performed with 
great magnificence, George I. became 
his godfather. 
The career of Mr. Townshend thus 
epened under the most favourable aus- 
pices, for he was named after a king, 
who entertained a great attachment both 
to his father and grandfather, while the 
two most powerful families then in the 
nation, those of Pelham and Walpole, 
were either related to, or connected with 
him. 
The first portion of his education, as 
well as that of his next brother, Charles,* 
* The Marquis of Townshend had four 
brothers. Roger, the fifth and youngest, like 
himself, entered into the army, and having 
attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, was 
killed by a cannon-shot at Ticonderago, in 
Worth America. 
The following inscription was afterwards 
engraved on his tomb, in Westminster-ab- 
bey : 
¢< This Monument was erected by a 
disconsolate Parent, the 
Lady Viscountess Townshend, 
To the Memory of her Fifth Son, 
The Hon. Lieut.-Col. Roger Townshend, 
who was killed by a 
Cannon-ball on the 25th of 
July, 1759, in the 28th 
: Year of his Age, 
As he was reconnoitering the French Lines, 
at Ticonderago, in North “America. 
From the Parent, the Brother, and the 
Friend, 
His social and amiable Manners, 
His enlerprising Bravery, 
And the integrity of bis Heart, 
May claim the Tribute of Affection. 
“¢ Yet, Stranger! weep.not; 
For though premature his Death, 
Memours of the late Marquis of Townshend. 
[Nov. I, 
who, after exhibiting precocious talents, 
blazed and expired lke a meteor, was 
received under the superintendance of 
Mr, Lome, master of Lichfield school, 
and who was afterwards rewarded with a 
Windsor canonry. If he ever obtained 
the benefits resulting from either Univer- 
sity, it must have been that of Cam- 
bridget; but we believe, that when yet a 
boy, he entered the Guards, and served 
on the Continent under the eye of George 
II. While in the 20th year of his age, 
and as yet buta subaltern, he fought at 
the memorable battle of Dettingen (June 
1743), where the Duke of Cumberland 
commanded. 
In 1747, we find him captain of a 
company, with the rank of lieutenante 
colonel, aid-de-camp to the prince just 
mentioned, and knight of the shire for 
the county of Norfolk; but in 175Qg¢he 
resigned all his military appointments, 
and, if we are not greatly mistaken, re- 
signed in disgust. He was then, and 
still after, however, the soldier’s friend: 
for about this period, he moved a clause 
on the third reading of the Mutiny Bill, 
“ that no commissioned officer should be 
liable to be broken without the sentence 
ef a court-martial.” Mr. Pitt, then in 
power, and who himself had lost his 
cornetcy of horse by the mere fiat of the 
court, with a degree of inconsistency, 
unworthy of so great a man, opposed the 
proposition. 
In themonth of December, 1751, the 
subject of this memoir obtained the hand 
of a lady, who united both birth and for- 
tune in her own person. This was Lady 
Charlotte Compton, only surviving issue 
of James, earl of Northampton, by Eli- 
zabeth Shirley, Baroness de Ferrars, 
The lady in question was, in her own 
right, Baroness de Ferrars, Bourchier, 
Lovaine, Basset & Compton, and their 
issue consisted of four sons and four 
daughters, as will be mentioned here- 
after. 
His Life was glorious 5 
Enrolling him with the Names of 
those immortal 
Statesmen and Commanders 
Whose Wisdom and Intrepidity, 
In the course of this comprehensive 
And successful War, 
Have extended the Commerce, 
Enlarged the Dominion, 
And upheld the Majesty of these Kingdomss,. 
Beyond the Idea of any furmer Age.” 
+ Several of Lord Townshend’s family 
obtained degrees at Cambridge; some of them 
sepresented the University. 
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