the action ofF Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795, and of the fleet concerned in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797), until nominated, 14 Jan. 1800, Acting-Lieutenant, on the station last named, of the Gaiété 20, Capts. Edw. Durnford King, Rich. Peacocke, Robt. Fanshawe, and Joseph Briggs. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 19 Dec. following, he assisted at the capture of the Danish and Swedish islands, and saw much active service. He returned to England at the peace; and was afterwards appointed – 11 Nov. 1802, to the Albion 74, Capt. John Ferrier, stationed at first in the Channel and next in the East Indies, whence he invalided in June, 1804 – in the course of 1805-6, to the Atlas 74, Veteran 64, and Hercule 74, Capts. Sam. Pym, Andrew Fitzherbert Evans, and Barrington Dacres, all in the West Indies, where he fought, in the Atlas, in the action off St. Domingo – 26 Dec. 1806 and 1 Aug. 1807, to the Uranie 38, Capt. Christopher Laroche, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Hon. Michael De Courcy, both in the Channel – 7 Nov. 1809 and 4 May, 1810, to the San Josef 110 and Hibernia 120, Capts. Rich. Dalling Dunn and John Nash, stationed (the former under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth) off Cadiz and Gibraltar – 10 Dec. 1810, to the Antelope 50, flag-ship of Sir J. T. Duckworth at Newfoundland – and 5 April, 1813, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had filled on board the Uranie), to the Queen 74, Capt. Lord John Colville, employed successively in the North Sea, Channel, and West Indies. While serving in the Albion he assisted at the capture of the French frigate La Franchise (which he was ordered to conduct into port) and the privateer Clarisse of 12 guns and 157 men. He was advanced to his present rank 27 June, 1814; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Townsend married, 5 Jan. 1815, Frances Phipps, daughter of the Rev. Thos. Biddulph, Vicar of Padstow, Cornwall, and first cousin of the late Earl Beauchamp.
TOWNSEND. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
John Townsend is youngest son of the late Horatio Townsend, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, by Elizabeth Trelawney, only daughter of Lieut.-General Sam. Townsend; and brother of the present Edw. Townsend, Esq., Major in Her Majesty’s 83rd Regt.
This officer entered the Navy 17 July, 1829; passed his examination 2 Nov. 1836; served for some time as Mate in the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, on the Mediterranean station; and from the commencement of 1842 until removed, 13 Nov. 1846, to the Vestal 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, was employed in the same capacity and as Lieutenant (commission dated 9 Feb. 1844) in the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the East Indies. He returned to England in July, 1847; and has been officiating, since 18 July, 1848, as First of the Pantaloon 8, Capt. Lewis De Teissier Prevost, on the coast of Africa.
TOWNSEND. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)
Joseph Cuthbert Townsend entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1807, as A.B., on board the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, under whom he assisted at the siege of Copenhagen and continued employed in the Baltic and Channel until transferred as Midshipman, in March, 1809, to the Nymphen 36, Capt. Keith Maxwell. In that ship he accompanied the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren, and was present at the forcing of the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. After serving for 12 months with Capt. Chas. Webb as Master’s Mate in the Gorgon 44, on the Baltic, Cork, and Lisbon stations, he joined, in March, 1811, the Rose sloop, Capt. Thos. Mansell, attached to the force in the North Sea; where, in Feb. 1812, he was taken prisoner in a prize and carried into Dunkerque. In Feb. 1814, having effected his escape while in the custody of a gendarme and returned to England, he was received as Master’s Mate on board the Harrier sloop, Capts. Andrew Pellet Green, John Forbes, and Sir Chas. Thos. Jones; in which vessel we find him witnessing the grand naval review at Spithead, and cruizing, afterwards, among the Canary Islands. He took up, in March, 1815, a commission bearing date 2 of the preceding Feb.; and has since been on half-pay.
TOWNSEND. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p. 13;[1] h-p., 34.)
Thomas Townsend died about April, 1848.
This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Glenmore 44, Capts. Geo. Duff and John Talbot, employed on the Cork station; where he served from May, 1803 (he had been discharged from the Glenmore in April, 1802), until May, 1808, in the Dryad 36, Capts. John Giffard and Adam Drummond – part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. He then joined the Diomede 50, flag-ship of Sir Edm. Nagle off Guernsey; and in the course of the same month, May, 1808, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Sheldrake 16, Capts. John Thicknesse and Jas. Pattison Stewart; to which vessel, employed chiefly in the Baltic, he was confirmed 27 June, 1809. His succeeding appointments were – 29 Aug. 1810, for nine months, to the Revenge 74, Capt. Jas. Nash, off Cherbourg – 21 May, 1812, to the Fox 32, Capt. Paterson, on the north coast of Spain – 16 Sept. following, to the Superb 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, in the Channel – and 28 April, 1814, to the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, stationed on the coast of Brazil, whence he returned to England and was paid off in Sept. 1815. In April, 1817, he obtained command of the Beresford Revenue cruizer. He was placed on the list of Retired Commanders 5 Jan. 1848.
TOWNSHEND. (Captain, 1834. f-p., 18; h-p., 15.)
John Townshend, born 28 March, 1798, is eldest son (by Georgiana Anne, youngest daughter of Wm. Poyntz, Esq., of Midgham, co. Berks,) of the late Lord John Townshend, a nobleman distinguished for his genius and his literary accomplishments, who accompanied Lord Howe, as a Volunteer, to the relief of Gibraltar in 1782, was afterwards a Lord of the Admiralty and-Paymaster of the Forces, and M.P. at different periods, for the University of Cambridge, the city of Westminster, and the borough of Knaresborough. Capt. Townshend is brother of the Rev. Geo. Osborne Townshend, who married a daughter of Admiral John M‘Kellar; brother-in-law of Rear-Admiral Sir Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Bart., C.B.; and nephew of the late General Wm. Loftus, Lieutenant of the Tower of London and Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, also of Lord Jas. Townshend, Captain R.N. (1809), K.C.H., who died 28 June, 1842, and of George, sixth Duke of Leeds. His grandfather, George, first Marquess Townshend (a Field-Marshal, Colonel of the Second Dragoon Guards, and for some time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), served under George II. at the battle of Dettingen, and was present at Fontenoy, Culloden, and Lafeldt, as well as at the siege of Quebec, which town surrendered to him as Commander-in-Chief after the death of General Wolfe.
This officer embarked (from the Royal Naval College) 24 April, 1814, as Midshipman, on board the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean. In the following Aug. he removed to the Tiber 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the Irish station; he served next, from June, 1816, until June, 1819, on the coast of North America, in the Forth 40, Capt. Sir John Louis; and in Oct. 1820, at which period he had been for 12 months employed at Leith as Master’s Mate in the Dover 28, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, he joined the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, again in the Mediterranean; where he was made Lieutenant, 13 May, 1822, into the Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore. In the spring of 1824 he returned to England. He was next, 4 Jan. 1827, appointed to the Alligator 28, Capt.
- ↑ Exclusive of his services in the Revenue.
