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 TOWNSHEND. 415 Ambassador to the Congress at the Hague/") 1709-11 ; one of the Lords Justices (Regents of the Realm), 1 Aug. to 18 Sep. 17l4,(, b ) being one of those nominated by Geo. I., with whom he Stood in treat favour ; was See. of State for the South, 1711-lb". He was num. Viceroy of Ireland, l-Vh. 1717, but, declining to go there] resigned two mouths later ; L. President of the Council, l?2fl»21, Sec. of State, for the North, 1721-30 ; el. and ill v. K.G.. ft and inst. 28 .luly 1721; but retired from public life (toon after the treaty of Seville, [I Nov. 1729) "in .May 1730( c ). He fortune of .£30.000"). sister of the half-blood of Thomas. Dt'KF. of Newcastle, da. of Thomas (PelhaM), 1st Babos Pei.ii.vm of Lacghton, by liis first wife; Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir William Jones, to which lady she was sole heir. She d. 11 May 1711. He hi. secondly, shortly before 25 July 1713. Dorothy,( li ) sister of Robert, the 1st and celebrated E.U1L of OBFOBD, da. of Hobert Walfoi.e, of Houghton, co! Norfolk, bv Mary, da. and h. of Sir Jeffrey BUBWELL, She if. of small-pox, 29 March, or May. 1726. Will pr. 1732. He d. 21 June 1738, aged 64. Will pr. 1738. Barony. .3. Charles (Townsiiexd), Baron TowNsnnxD op III 1723 I.vn.v llEiiis. 1st s. ami h. ap.,(«)by 1st wife ; 6. 11 July 1700; M.P. for Great Yarmouth. 1722-23 ; was sum (f) to Pari, v.p. (in his Viscountcy. father's Barony) by writ, 23 May 1 723. directed "Charles Totcnshcnd III 1 ""IX f ' c A'/"" tot9**i c "- ^ '"'/■■ dir.." taking his seat in his father's Barony of Tmemhend dc Lynn Jleqis (or. lflill), but being in the journals of the House (erroneously) styled " LOUD LYNN."(S) such designation being, it is presumed, for the purpose • if distinguishing him from his father ; was a Lord of the Bedchamber to d o. I.. 1723-27 ; Master of the Jewel office, 1730-39; L. Lieut, of Norfolk. 1730-38; sue. his father, 21 June 173S, as Viscount Townshknd of Uaynham. He m. 29 May 1723. Etheldreda, or Audrey, da. and h. of Edward Hakmsos. of Balls Park, iu Hertford, sometime Gov. of Fort ( !l ) " The choice was well made," says Burnet, for he " had great parts, had improved them by travelling, and was by much the most shining person of all our young nubility." In early life, when "tall and handsome," ami about 30, Macky (" CkaracUrt ) speaks of his "sweet disposition," and of his being " beloved by everybody that knows him." To this last sentence, however, Beau Swift sarcastically adds " I except one." (>>) See vol. iii. p. 110, note " b." sub Pevonshire. ('') His political life ami the friendship and jealousy between him and his brother- in-law, the Celebrated Sir Robert Walpole, are matter of history, ami are dealt with at great length by Coxe, in his life of the latter. Walpole thus aptly explains the breach between them. " As long as the firm was TowntMnd and Walpole, all went well : as soon as it became WalptA* and Tmrnshcnd, things went wrong." Towushend's " rough and impetuous manners " [tW] made him unpopular in the Cabinet and with the Queen Consort, but (says Coxe) he "retired with the most unsullied character for integrity, honour, and disinterestedness." Lord Hervey. however, says of him: "He was much more tenacious of his opinion, than his word, for the one he never gave up. and the other he seldom kept." His portrait. " after Sir G. Kneller," is engraved in " Doyle." (''■) Lady Strafford writes. 20 Feb. 1713: "Here is au extraordinary wedding a going to be. Lord Townshend to Dully Walpole. She is one Lord Wharton kept. I am for having the Whigs have all such wives." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [" Court of Geo. /."] says of her, that " Mr. Walpole had a very handsome sister whose folly had lost her reputation iu London, but the yet greater folly of Lord T. .. . had occasioned his being drawn in to marry her." She, when a girl, had stayed iu London with the Whartons, and Lord Wharton's "character was so infamous, and his lady's complaisant subserviency so notorious, that no young woman could be four and twenty- houis under their roof with safety to her reputation." (") Thomas, the 2d s. ((/. 21 May 17S0, aged 7S), was father of Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney of St. Leonards, while William, the 3d s. {d. 29 Jan. 1 73//S), was father of Charles, 1st Baron Bayning of Foxley. ( f ; See vol. v. p. 1S3, note " d." where is recited a similar instance, m 1C2S, of the eldest sou of another Viscount being so sum., as also in 16S0, the eldest sou of a Baron. («) See vol. v, p. 1S4, note " a," as to a similar (erroneous) course.
 * n. firstly, 3 July 1688 (Lie. Fac. 29 June 1C9S, lie 23 and she 17), Elizabeth ("a