Early Life
Townshend was the only son of Henry Hare Townsend, whose maternal grandfather was Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, and whose father (and thus Chauncy's grandfather) was James Townsend M.P., Lord Mayor of London from 1772 – 1773. They were a wealthy family, with lands in Norfolk, London and Switzerland, and the young Chauncy was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He graduated with B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1824, and won the Chancellor's Gold Medal in 1817 for his poem 'Jerusalem.' He also appears to have played one game of cricket for Kent in 1829.
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