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