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 xiv her will — commemorated by Lytton in "Pelham" — her jests — kindly estimate of her by lady Charlotte Bury and Sir Walter Scott pp. 149—171

The great families of East Anglia in the eighteenth century — parentage and birth of Townshend — A Whig he contests the representation of the university of Cambridge — is defeated, returned, and defeated again — his friendship with Fox — Tickell addresses a poem to him — his triumphant return for Westminster — M.P. for Knaresborough — A mimic and a poet — The Rolliad — Jekyll a political eclogue — his verses in Brummell's note-book — his life in society — his wife and family — his death and his epitaph pp. 172—183