Horatio Townshend

Horatio Townshend was an English banker and politician who sat in the British [House of Commons|House of Commons] between 1715 and 1734.
Townshend was the son of Horatio Townshend, [1st Viscount Townshend] and his second wife Mary Ashe, daughter of Sir [Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet], and was educated at Eton College.
Townshend was Member of Parliament for Great [Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Great Yarmouth] from 1715 to 1722, in which year he became a director of the Bank of England. He was then Member of Parliament for Heytesbury from 1727 to 1734.
Townshend was Governor of the [Bank of England] from 1733 to 1735. He had been Deputy [Governor of the Bank of England|Deputy Governor] from 1732 to 1733. He replaced Edward Bellamy as Governor and was succeeded by Bryan Benson. He was a Commissioner of the Victualling Board from 1747 to 1765.
He married Alice Starkey in a Fleet Marriage on 21 April 1721.
He died on 4 October 1751 and was buried at St. George the Martyr Cemetery, Brunswick Square beside his wife Alice and three of his children, Alice, Mary and Horatio.