Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ( 1675 - 1738 )

Birth: 18 April 1675 Baptism: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (02 May 1675) Death: Raynham, Norfolk (21 June 1738) Burial: East Raynham, Norfolk Education: Eton College; King's College, Cambridge (matriculated 1691) Career: Travelled in Europe with his tutor William Sherard (FRS 1720) (1694); High Steward of Lynn and Norwich Cathedral (1701-death); Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk (1701-1713, 1714-1730); Commissioner for the Union of England and Scotland (1706); Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (1707-1711); Privy Councillor (1707); Joint Plenipotentiary to conclude peace with France (1709); Joint Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to The Hague (1709-1711); recalled and censured for having exceeded his instructions; one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1714); Secretary of State for the South (1714-1716); Secretary of State for the North (1720-1730); appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, but declined to go there (1717); Lord President of the Council (1720-1721); Governor of the Charterhouse; retired from public life and devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture (1730) Honours: KG 1724 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/04/1706.