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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

1674 - 1738

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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, (; 18 April 1674 – 21 June 1738) was an English Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1714 to 1717 and again from 1721 to 1730. He directed British foreign policy in close collaboration with his brother-in-law, prime minister Robert Walpole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend has received more than 300,717 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend is the 16,289th most popular politician (down from 14,452nd in 2019), the 4,761st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,074th in 2019) and the 568th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ranks 16,289 out of 19,576Before him are Gary Johnson, Otto Arosemena, Anita Gradin, Miguel Arias Cañete, Brigitte Zypries, and Nancy Faeser. After him are John Cornyn, Dan Coats, Mae Young, Michael Hayden, Nikos Dendias, and Coenred of Mercia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ranks 14Before him are Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Marie of Lorraine, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Isaac Watts, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn.  Among people deceased in 1738, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ranks 11Before him are Turlough O'Carolan, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, George Bähr, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg, Matthias Braun, and Jean-Joseph Mouret.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ranks 4,761 out of 8,785Before him are David Owen (1938), Dave Gibbons (1949), Nicollette Sheridan (1963), Mina Loy (1882), Arnold Jackson (1891), and Jim Lea (1949). After him are Mary Beard (1955), Juliet Stevenson (1956), Heather Angel (1909), C. H. Dodd (1884), Robert Smirke (1780), and Balfour Stewart (1828).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ranks 568Before him are John Hunter (1737), George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716), Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779), Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790), Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860), and David Owen (1938). After him are Nigel Lawson (1932), Reginald McKenna (1863), Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860), and Charles Rosher (1885).