Townshend
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Townshend may refer to:
- Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
- Charles Townshend (1700-1764), 3nd Viscount Townshend
- Charles Townshend (1725-1767), Chancellor of the Exchequer, son of the 3rd Viscount
- The Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that placed a tax on common import goods and which fomented resentment of the British in the Thirteen Colonies.
- George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend
- Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
- Townshend, Cornwall
- Townshend, Vermont
- Pete Townshend
- Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1861- 1924), British Major General
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