Roger Townshend (5 June 1708 – 7 August 1760) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament. Townshend was the youngest son of

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, (; 18 April 167421 June 1738) was a British Whig statesman. From 1714 to 1717, and again from 1721 to 1730, he served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department . He directed British foreign po ...

, from his first marriage to the Hon. Elizabeth Pelham.

Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend (11 July 1700 – 12 March 1764), known as The Lord Lynn from 1723 to 1738, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1723 when he was elevated to the House of Lords by w ...

, Thomas Townshend and William Townshend were his elder brothers while

George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (28 February 172414 September 1807), known as The Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a Great Britain, ...

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and

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, were his nephews. Townshend was a cavalry officer in Wade's Regiment of Horse and was notably present as an aide-de-camp to King George II at the

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in 1743. He served as Governor of the North Yarmouth garrison from 1745 to 1760. Apart from his military career he also sat as Member of Parliament for

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from 1738 to 1747 and for

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from 1747 to 1748 and a Receiver of Customs from 1748 to 1760. During his time in Parliament he voted with the Opposition in his first Parliament but thereafter with the Administration. Townshend died in August 1760, aged 52. He never married.

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Townshend, Roger 1708 births 1760 deaths 3rd Dragoon Guards officers British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Younger sons of viscounts British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 Roger Townshend Politics of the Borough of Great Yarmouth

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