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Charles Townshend

1725 - 1767

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Charles Townshend (27 August 1725 – 4 September 1767) was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution. Townshend was born at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, as the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey Harrison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Townshend has received more than 288,370 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Townshend is the 13,573rd most popular politician (up from 14,658th in 2019), the 3,112th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,209th in 2019) and the 437th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Townshend ranks 13,573 out of 19,576. Before him are Bhagwan Das, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Salmon P. Chase, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Oskari Mantere, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. After him are Jozef Moravčík, Black Kettle, Florence Green, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Fritz Honegger, and Eben Dönges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Charles Townshend ranks 29. Before him are Jean-Étienne Montucla, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Duplessis, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Wilkes, and Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Ivan Osterman, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Paul Sandby, John Morton, William Duesbury, and Dru Drury. Among people deceased in 1767, Charles Townshend ranks 15. Before him are Johann Schobert, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Ekkathat, Emer de Vattel, Firmin Abauzit, and Giacomo Ceruti. After him are Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov, Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Townshend ranks 3,112 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Phillips (1888), David Don (1799), Dora Carrington (1893), Duncan Grant (1885), Anna Massey (1937), and William Thoms (1803). After him are Florence Green (1901), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Alec McCowen (1925), Don McCullin (1935), Edith Evans (1888), and Henry Travers (1874).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Townshend ranks 437. Before him are Princess Louisa of Great Britain (1749), John Lilburne (1614), Ruth Belville (1854), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822), and Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435). After him are Florence Green (1901), Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), Alan Bullock (1914), Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885), Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402), and George W. Campbell (1769).

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