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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