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Ritratto del visconte Townshend, in uniforme dell' Ordine della Giarrettiera, di Godfrey Kneller, 1715-1720, National Portrait Gallery. Charles Townshend II visconte Townshend ( Norfolk, 18 aprile 1674 – Norfolk, 21 giugno 1738) è stato un nobile britannico, fratellastro di Robert Walpole .
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, KG PC FRS (/ ˈ t aʊ n z ən d /; 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.
14 apr 2024 · Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (born April 18, 1675, Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England—died June 21, 1738, Raynham) was a Whig statesman who directed British foreign policy from 1721 to 1730. He succeeded his father, Horatio Townshend, as viscount in 1687, and in 1714 King George I appointed him a secretary of state.
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Enciclopedia. Townshend, Sir Charles, 2º visco... Townshend, Sir Charles, 2º visconte. Enciclopedia on line. DAL VOCABOLARIO. LEMMI CORRELATI. Uomo politico inglese (n. 1674 - m. Raynham, Worfolk, 1738). Membro del partito whig, negoziò e concluse con gli Olandesi il trattato della Barriera (ott. 1709).
11 giu 2018 · World Encyclopedia. Charles Townshend [1] Townshend, 2d Viscount (toun´zĕnd), 1674–1738, English statesman. A leading Whig in the reign of Queen Anne, he served as a commissioner to negotiate the union (1707) with Scotland and as ambassador (1708–11) to the Netherlands.
Charles Townshend II visconte Townshend (Norfolk, 18 aprile 1674 – Norfolk, 21 giugno 1738) è stato un nobile britannico, fratellastro di Robert Walpole. Quick facts: Charles Townshend, Ambasciatore del Regno Uni...
11 apr 2024 · Charles Townshend (born August 27, 1725—died September 4, 1767, London, England) was a British chancellor of the Exchequer whose measures for the taxation of the British American colonies intensified the hostilities that eventually led to the American Revolution. The second son of the 3rd Viscount Townshend, he was educated at Cambridge and Leyden.
