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Townshend, George, (1724-1807), 1st Marquess Townshend, Field Marshal

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Surname: Townshend
Forenames: George
Gender: Male
Date: 1724-1807
Title: 1st Marquess Townshend
Biography: ODNB link for Townshend, George (1724-1807) 1st Marquess Townshend, Field Marshal
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P165956 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28647 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for George Townshend
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to Norfolk Record Office
NRA 1224 Townshend
2
corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 38497, 38505-06, 41152, 50006-12
NRA 20963
3
1795-97: letters to him, and copies of outward correspondence, as governor of Jersey (2 volumes)
Jersey Archive
JA/507
See Bonham and Brooks sale 5/6/01 lot 114; Annual Return 2001
4
corresp
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 63079-80, 63096, 63099-100, 63103, 63110-11
5
personal and family corresp and papers
Norfolk Record Office
BL
NRA 27666 Bradfer-Lawrence
6
corresp and account book
Lewis Walpole Library
NRA 22338 Walpole Library

See Analecta Hibernica 30 1982 p262
7
1767-1807: corresp and papers
University of Michigan: William L Clements Library
Townshend papers
See Guide 1978 pp140-41
8
1752-1800: corresp
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
OSB MSS 161
NRA 20037
9
1752-1807: corresp and papers chiefly rel to Tamworth affairs
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D187/2
NRA 42307 Tamworth MSS
10
1742-71: corresp and papers incl letters (11) from Lt-General Edward Cornwallis
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
6806/41 9107-146
NRA 20834 Townshend
11
corresp and papers
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
12
1767-72: corresp rel to Ireland
National Archives of Ireland
M648-735
13
1767-72: corresp rel to ecclesiastical patronage
Representative Church Body Library
NRA 28346 Townshend
14
1769-71: corresp
National Library of Ireland
See Accessions to Repositories 1976
15
1749-1801: corresp
Duke University: William R Perkins Library
See Guide 1980 p578
16
1767-93: corresp
Boston Public Library
NRA 22724 Townshend
17
1790-97: corresp rel to Queen's Dragoon Guards
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MSS 1489D, 2115C
18
1794-1800: corresp rel to Queen's Dragoon Guards
Firing Line: Museum of The Queen's Dragoon Guards and The Royal Welsh
NRA 20951 Regimental museums
19
1759-70: corresp
Library and Archives Canada
MG18 L7
See General inventory manuscripts
20
corresp and papers (54 items)
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Eng MS 940
21
c1758-1790: letters (33) from Lord Robert Bertie and others
Flinders University Library
SC0058
22
1774-75: letters to Sir Jeffery Amherst
Kent History and Library Centre
U1350
NRA 15261
23
1769-82: letters (33) to Sir James Caldwell
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
BAG
NRA 10462 Bagshawe
24
1767-80: corresp with Robert FitzGerald
Collection held privately: enquiries to Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
T3075
NRA 29433 FitzGerald
25
1779-82: letters to Sir Frederick Haldimand
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 21709
26
1792-1802: letters to Lord Hardwicke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 35663-732 passim
27
1767-1802: corresp with Earl of Liverpool
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 38206-31, 38305-11, 38416, 38449, 38473
28
corresp with Lords Loudon and Bute
Bute Archive at Mount Stuart
NRAS631
NRA 15459 Crichton-Stuart
29
1768-72: letters (c50) to Lord Macartney
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D572, 2225
NRA 6465 Macartney
30
1751-70, 1802: corresp with Duke of Newcastle etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 31725-33118 passim
31
1796-97: corresp with Earl of Pembroke
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Handlist of MSS vol 2
32
letters (12) to Lord Pery
Huntington Library
See Guide 1982
33
letters to William Pitt
The National Archives
PRO30/8
34
letters to Preston family
Norfolk Record Office
See Accessions to Repositories 1983
35
1754-66: letters from Charles Townshend
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng hist d 211
36
1758-65: letters to Charles Townshend
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett c 386
NRA 21249
37
1796, 1803: corresp with William Windham
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 37881-82, 37908 passim
38
1760: letters from William Windham
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
8604/81
NRA 18641 Nat Army Mus misc
39
1750-1833: (copy) exported papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 1325-7
40
1763-89: (copy) further exported papers as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 1675