Roger Townshend may refer to:
- Roger Townshend (judge) (c. 1430–1493), Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, MP for Bramber
- Roger Townshend (died 1551), MP for Norfolk, son of the above
- Roger Townshend (died 1590), courtier, great-grandson of the above
- Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet (c. 1596–1637), grandson of the above
- Sir Roger Townshend, 2nd Baronet (1628–1648), eldest son of the above
- Roger Townshend (MP) (1708–1760), soldier and MP, younger son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Famous quotes containing the words roger and/or townshend:
“I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“But neither steele nor stony breast
Are proof against those lookes of thine,
Nor can a Beauty lesse divine
Of any heart be long possest,
Where thou pretend’st an interest.”
—Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)