Abstract
Aseat for Townshend in the new Parliament, the first of George III’s reign, had been a problem for some time past: it seems to have been assumed all along that the seat he held at Saltash was to revert to an Admiralty candidate. By the spring of 1760 Townshend’s bid for the leadership of Scotland and the Parliamentary representation of Edinburgh, if indeed they had been seriously meant, had slumped completely, and his name appeared on 26 July in Newcastle’s list of ‘persons to be brought into Parliament at the next election’. Not that Townshend left the matter to Newcastle’s exclusive management. Two filibustering attempts by him in wholly unexpected regions are recorded.
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© 1964 Lady Namier
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Namier, L., Brooke, J. (1964). Townshend in the New Reign 1760–1763. In: Charles Townshend. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81801-3_4
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