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Roger Townshend (British Army officer, born 1708)

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from 1747 to 1748 and a Receiver of Customs from 1748 to 1760. During his time in Parliament he voted with the Opposition in his first Parliament but thereafter with the Administration.
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in 1743. He served as Governor of the North Yarmouth garrison from 1745 to 1760.
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Apart from his military career he also sat as Member of Parliament for
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British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
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Townshend died in August 1760, aged 52. He never married.
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Index

Member of Parliament
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend
Thomas Townshend
William Townshend
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
Charles Townshend
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
Wade's Regiment of Horse
King George II
Battle of Dettingen
Great Yarmouth
Eye
Marquess Townshend
Lee, Sidney
"Townshend, Charles (1674-1738)" 
Dictionary of National Biography


"TOWNSHEND, Hon. Roger (1708-60)."
Sedgwick, Romney
The History of Parliament Trust
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Parliament of Great Britain
William Townshend
Sir Edward Walpole
Member of Parliament
Great Yarmouth
Sir Edward Walpole
Sir Edward Walpole

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