Charles Townshend Quotes
I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.
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| Birth: | 29th August, 1725 |
| Death: | 4th September, 1767 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Politician |
Charles Townshend was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey, daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison of Ball's Park, near Hertford, a lady who rivalled her son in brilliancy of wit and frankness of expression. At the Dutch university, where he matriculated on 27 October 1745, he associated with a small knot of English youths, afterwards well known in various circles of life, among whom were Dowdeswell, Wilkes, the witty and unprincipled reformer, and Alexander Carlyle, the genial Scotsman, who devotes some of the pages of his Autobiography to chronicling their sayings and their doings.
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