Elizabeth Anne Townshend (235)
| Date of Birth: | 1790 |
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| Date of Death: | dsp 12 Jan 1885 |
| Generation: | 6th |
| Residence: | Murragh and Castletownshend |
| Father: | Richard Boyle Townsend [219] |
| Mother: | Newenham, Henrietta |
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| Issue: | None |
| See Also: | Table II ; Scrapbook ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree |
Notes for Elizabeth Anne Townshend
Married 3 September 1850. Rev Robert Kingsborough St Lawrence (1) Rector of Murragh, Bandon, Co Cork. See Burke's Irish Landed Gentry 1912 - Gaisford St Lawrence.
Elizabeth and her sister Henrietta Augusta Townsend [234] where famed for their beauty. When they were presented at Court, Anthony St Leger (2), the Queen's Chamberlain, standing by said " Those are the two young ladies from Ireland I mean to marry". To which Queen Charlotte replied "You have very good taste Mr St Leger". Elizabeth was also renowned for her wit as well as her beauty.
According to Edward Mansel Townshend [630] (2) Elizabeth conducted an 'incessant correspondence' with Elise Townshend, wife of Samuel Thomas Townshend [443], who had "a system of secret enquiry, into the lives and doings of others, which was as unhappy, as it was misleading and unprofitable".
Elizabeth and Robert lived for some time in Brussels where her charming manners and conversation made her most popular. Later they returned to Ireland. Elizabeth was living at Shanna Court, Castletownshend when she died (3). In her will she left £5,000 (2005 equivalent about £313,250) to her great nephew Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend [263].
(1) Robert was born on 29 September 1797 and died in June 1866. He was the third son of Rt Rev Thomas St Lawrence DD Bishop of Cork and Ross who was born in 1755 and married Frances, eldest daughter and co-heir of Rev Henry Coglan DD.
(2) 'A Protestant Auto-Biography by the Rev E Mansel Townshend'.
(3) Entry in the diary of Agnes Townsend [334] - 'Jany 1885 Mrs St Laurence died.'
'An Officer of the Long Parliament' Ch VII p. 184 refers.