Personal Life
He was married three times: Ruth Pearce (1949) with whom he had four sons; Joy Skegg (1977) with whom he had one daughter; Jean Ann Corston, a Labour peer and former MP (1985) (one stepson, one stepdaughter) who was his partner since 1980.
Townsend died of heart failure on 7 June 2009. He was survived by Corston and his five children.
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