Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Townley, James (1)
Townley, James, s. Charles, of London, gent. St. John's Coll., matric. 15 May, 1732, aged 18; B.A. 1735, M.A. 1738, rector of St. Benet's, Gracechurch, and St. Leonard's, Eastcheap, 1749. and head-master Merchant Taylors' School 1760, vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1772, until his death 15 July, 1778, brother of Sir Charles Townley, clarencieux-king-of-arms. See Robinson, i. xv.; ii. 70.