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 John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (28 March 1798 – 10 September 1863), known as John Townshend until 1855, was a British

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 naval commander.

Townshend was the son of Lord John Townshend

Lord John Townshend

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, younger son of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend

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. His mother was Georgiana Anne Poyntz. He served in the Royal Navy

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 and achieved the rank of Rear-Admiral. Between 1847 and 1855 he also sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Tamworth

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. The latter year he succeeded his first cousin in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords

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.

Lord Townshend married Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart, daughter of Lord George Stuart, younger son of John Crichton-Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, on 18 August 1825. They had five children:

• Lady Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend (d. 1926), married firstly, Greville Howard, son of Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk
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   and had issue. She married secondly, General Redvers Henry Buller.
• James Dudley Browlow Stuart Townshend (d. 1846), unmarried.
• Anne Maria Townshend (d. 1899), married Alexander Sherson.
• Elizabeth Clementina Townshend (d. 1910), married John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan
  John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan
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   and had issue.
• John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend
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  (1831–1899)

Lord Townshend died in September 1863, aged 65, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son John. Lady Townshend died in 1877.