Edward Townshend
The Hon Edward Townshend, D.D. was an Anglican dean in the eighteenth century.
The son of Charles Townshend, [2nd Viscount Townshend] he was educated at Eton and Trinity [College, Cambridge]. He was ordained in 1743. Townshend became Rector of Pulham [St Mary|Pulham] in 1745; and of Oakley in 1748. He was Deputy Clerk of the Closet from 1746 until his appointment as Dean of Norwich in 1761.