The eldest son of Lord John Townshend, educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; shortly before his early death he stood as candidate for Cambridge University.

REFERENCES TO Charles Fox Townshend:

Lord John Townshend to Lady Melbourne, [1812 c.?] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lord John Townshend to Samuel Rogers, 13 August 1816 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)