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Tour in Italy in 1850, u-ith an Account of an Tntervicw with the Pope at the Vatican (I80O, 8vo). Soe AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mcr. A uthurs, s. v. ; Darling, ( 'ydup. Jiihlioi). s. V.
Townsend, John, an English Dissenting minis- ter, was iMini M.ircli -'4,1757, in the jiarish of Wliite- cliapel, Ciiunty of Middlesex. He was educated for five years at Christ's Hospital, and was then apprenticeil to his father. Having received some religious impres- sions from the preaching of the Kev. Henry Peckwell, he offered himself as a member at the Tabernacle, and commenced public teaching in some of the villages around London, but soon received an invitation to sup- lily the Indepeniient meeting at Kingston, where he was ordained, June 1, 1781. After three years Mr. Townsend cjuitted Kingston and settled at Bermond- sey, where he commenced his official duties at mid- summer, 1784, and in which situation he continued to labor in his Master's vineyard till the period of his death, Feb. 7,18-20.
Mr. Townsend was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. He also aided in the format ion of the Tract Society, the British and Foreign Bilile So- ciety, the London Female Penitentiary, the Irish Evan- gelical, the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, the Congregational School (raised entirely by his influence), the Fund for the Relief of Aged Ministers, and espe- cially the Asylum for the Deaf and DumI), which, if we are not mistaken, owed its establishnient chiefly to his exertions. His sober, solid, judicious hints and obser- vations were always listened to with profound atten- tion, and his advice, which was never officially obtruded, was always acceptable. As a preacher he was distin- guished by good sense and sound doctrine, commending himself to the conscience and the heart by a clear and judicious exhibition of divine truth. His principal works are. Three Sermons (1797, 8vo) : — Nine. Discourses OH Prayer ('id ed. Lond. 1709, 8vo) : — flints on Sunday- schools and Pinerant Preachinrj (1801, 8vo): — single Sermons (178G-1808). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and .4 mer. A uthors, s. v.
Townsend, Joseph, an English clergyman, was a fellow of Cains College, Cambridge, and studied medi- cine at Edinburgh. He afterwards entered holy orders, and became rector of Pewsey, Wiltshire, and chaplain to Lady Huntingdon, preaching in her chapel at Bath. He died in 181tj. He published, Erery True Christian. a Nen^ (Jreature (Lond. 17(Jo, 12mo) : — Thoughts on Des- potic and Free (governments (1781-91, 8 vo) : — Disserta- tion on the Poor-laws, by a Well-xvisher to Mankind (17H(), 8vo) : — Observations on Various Plans for the Relief of the Poor (1788, 8vo):— ^e Character of Moses Kstab- lishedfor Veracity as a Historian, etc. (Bath, 1813-15, 2 vols. 4to) : — besides medical and scientitic works, ser- mons, etc. See Allihone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A u- thors, s. v.; Darling, Cyclop. Biblior/. s. v.
Townsend, Thomas Stuart, D.D., an English prelate, was born in Cork al)out 1«01, and became dean of Lismore in July, 1849; dean of Waterford in August, 1850; bishop of Meath in September, 1850; and died at Malaga. Spain, Sept. 16, 1852. He published some edu- cational and religious treatises. See Lo7id. Athen. 1849, J). 829, 1057; Lond. Gent. Maff. 1852, ii, 522.
Townshend, Ciiauscv lL\Rt:, an English clergy- man, was born in 1800, and was educateil at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated A.B. in 1821 and A.M. in 1824. He received the university prize for English verse (Jerusalem) in 1828. During his last years he lived chiefly at Lausanne, Switzerland, and died Feb. 25, 1868. He bequeathed to Charles Dickens money, manuscripts, essays, letters, etc., some of which he desired to be pub- lished. Accordingly iNIr. Dickens published in December, 1809, Relif/ious Opinions of the Rev. Chauncy Townshend, published as directed by his will (London, 8vo). He also wrote. Poems (ibid. ]H2\, 8vo):— Descriptive Tour in Scotland (ibid. 1840, 8vo) : — Fcrc/s in Afesmerism
(ibid. 1840, 8vo) : — Sermons in So7mets, etc. (ibid. 1851', 8vo) : — 'The Three Gates, in verse (ibid. 1859, 8vo). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.
Townson, 'I'iiomas, D.D., an English clergyman, was born at Much Lees, in Essex, in 1715. He was edu- cated at Oxford, where he took his degree of A.JI. in 1739; was onlained priest in 1742; became vicar of Ilat- lield Pcverel in 1740; senior jiroctor of the university, and rector of lilithtield, Staffordshire, in 1749; and rector of ;\Ialpas in 1751, where the rest of his life was spent. In 1781 he was made archdeacon of Richmond, and in 1783 was offered the professorship of divinity at Oxford, which he declined. He died April 15, 1792. His most important works are his iJiseourses on the Four Gospels, chiify irilh reyard to the Peculiar Desiyn of Each, and the Order and Places in tvhich they were Written, pub- lished in 1778, which has passed through three edi- tions; and his Discourse on the Evanyelical History from the Intei'ment to the Resun-ection of our Lord ( 1 792). His collected works were issued in 2 vols. 8vo (Lond. 1810), edited by Ralph Churton, A.M. See Allibone, I Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Kitto, Cyclop. s. v. ; Chalmers, Bloc/. Diet. s. v.