John Townshend

John Townshend may refer to:

  • Sir John Townshend (died 1603), MP and soldier, ancestor of the Marquesses Townshend, killed in a duel
  • Lord John Townshend (1757–1833), British Whig politician, MP for Cambridge University, Westminster and Knaresborough
  • John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (1798–1863), his son, British naval commander
  • John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend (1831–1899), his son, British peer and Liberal MP for Tamworth, 1856–1863
  • John Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend (1866–1921), his son, British peer
  • John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764–1831), British peer
  • John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (1805–1890), his son, MP for Whitchurch, 1826–1831, Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward

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    “No such sermons have come to us here out of England, in late years, as those of this preacher,—sermons to kings, and sermons to peasants, and sermons to all intermediate classes. It is in vain that John Bull, or any of his cousins, turns a deaf ear, and pretends not to hear them: nature will not soon be weary of repeating them. There are words less obviously true, more for the ages to hear, perhaps, but none so impossible for this age not to hear.”
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