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Townshend had married Charlotte Compton, 15th Baroness Ferrers Of Chartley (d. 1770), daughter of James Compton, 5th Earl Of Northampton , on 19 December 1751 . They had eight children:
Townshend served as a Brigadier in Quebec , under General James Wolfe ; when the latter died, and his second-in-command ( Robert Monckton ) was wounded, Townshend took command of the British forces during the siege of Quebec. He received Quebec City 's surrender on September 18 , 1759 . However, he held Gen. Wolfe in much contempt, and was harshly criticized upon his return to Great Britain for that reason (Wolfe was a popular hero throughout the country). Nonetheless, he was promoted Major General on March 6 , 1761 and fought at the Battle Of Vellinghausen . He served as Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland from 1767–1772. On 2 February 1773 he fought a duel with Charles Coote, 1st Earl Of Bellomont , badly wounding the Earl with a bullet in the groin. He married Anne Montgomery, the daughter of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet on May 19 , 1773 . They had six children:
In 1779 , Fort Townshend, was begun by Governor Richard Edwards , naming it after George Townshend, who was then Master-General Of The Ordnance ( 1772 – 1782 and 1783 – 1784 ) and responsible for the construction of fortifications. The Fort includes the Government House of Newfoundland and Labrador. (See Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 2, p. 327.) Townshend was promoted to , and he took a carriage to London with his brother, Rev. Lord Frederick, the Rector of Stiffkey. During the journey, Lord Frederick inexplicably killed his brother with a pistol shot to the head, and was ultimately adjuged insane. EXTERNAL LINKS
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