Townshend, Charles, (1674-1738), 2nd Viscount Townshend, statesman

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Surname:	Townshend
Forenames:	Charles
Gender:	Male
Date:	1674-1738
Title:	2nd Viscount Townshend
History:	Plenipotentiary to Netherlands, 1709-1711. Succeeded to peerage, 1687.
Biography:	ODNB link for Townshend, Charles (1674-1738) 2nd Viscount Townshend, statesman
References:	NCA Rules; DNB
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P276015 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P165916 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Charles Townshend

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1709 Jun 16: Marlborough to Boyle: Robinson reports the French have only three or four small frigates...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/5/2
2	1711 Mar 23: Extract from the register of resolutions of the states general: deputies of the states...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/6/12
3	1711 Mar 23: Extract from the register of resolutions of the states general: deputies of the states...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/6/11
4	1711 Nov 08: Marlborough and Lord Townshend to the elector Palatine, seconding the request of the...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/6/3
5	1710 Aug 21: Marlborough to Boyle: he hopes Townshend will be successful in his negotiations on the...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/5/113
6	1710 Aug 23: Major General Seissan to Marlborough: contrary winds delayed his arrival at Genoa....	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/5/116
7	1709 Aug 19: Marlborough to Boyle: Lord Townshend's negotiations on the [first] barrier treaty....	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/5/27
8	1710 Aug 11: Marlborough to Boyle: discrepancies between the relations of Lord Townshend and those of...	The National Archives, Kew	SP 87/5/106
9	corresp and papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to Norfolk Record Office		NRA 1224 Townshend
10	1709-11: registers, corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 33273, 36795, 38498-99; Eg MS 892-94
11	1709-11: letter book and letters	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/EX 736	NRA 3507 Herts RO misc See Annual Report 1986
12	1709-1729: corresp and papers	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	OSB MSS 161	NRA 20037
13	1723-30: corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 48981-82
14	1709-15: diplomatic corresp and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 194, d 117-18
15	1711-14: diplomatic corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 22205-07
16	corresp and papers	National Library of Australia	MS1458	See Archives, vol XXI, no 92, Oct 1994, p206
17	corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63079, 63095, 63103
18	misc papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist c 194
19	1709: register of letters from Henry Boyle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 37634
20	1709-10: corresp with Henry Boyle	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist d 147-48
21	1728-29: letters (243) from Lord Chesterfield	The National Archives	SP84/300-305 passim	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
22	1715-30: letters to J Dayrolle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 15866-67
23	1723-24: corresp with Duke of Grafton	Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch	HA513	NRA 2567 Fitzroy
24	1721-30: letters to Lord Hardwicke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 35585-36138 passim
25	1730: corresp with Sir Charles Hotham	Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)	DDHO/3/4	NRA 5408
26	1717-24: letters from William King	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 1995-2008	NRA 20078
27	1709-10: letters from Duke of Marlborough	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41178
28	1715-29: corresp with Duke of Newcastle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 32686-992 passim
29	1728-29: corresp with Duke of Newcastle	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
30	1710-35: letters to Sir John Norris	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 28153-56
31	1722-23: letters to Lord North	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS North	NRA 837 North
32	1727: letters from Stephen Poyntz	British Library, Manuscript Collections		NRA 10410 Spencer
33	1721: letters from Colonel Stanhope	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 22520
34	corresp with James Stanhope	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 22510; Eg MS 3124
35	c1729-40: corresp with Lord Waldegrave	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 28249 Waldegrave
36	1720-25: corresp with Horatio Walpole	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37635, 46856
37	letters (26) to Sir Robert Walpole	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Cholmondeley (Houghton)	NRA 7114 Walpole
38	1710-22: corresp with Charles Whitworth etc	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37358-89 passim
39	c1698-1707: misc corresp	Norfolk Record Office	MC 1601/77-83	NRA 41765