John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney

Deceased Person

1764 – 1831

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Who was John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney?

John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney of St Leonards was a British peer.

He was the son of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney of St Leonards and Elizabeth Powys. On 13 April 1790 he married Hon. Sophia Southwell, daughter of Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford. They had one child;

⁕Hon. Sophia Mary Townshend.

He married a second time, to Caroline Elizabeth Letitia Clements, daughter of Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, on 27 May 1802. They had two children:

⁕Mary Elizabeth Sydney

⁕John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney

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Born
Feb 21, 1764
Died
Jan 20, 1831

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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