Horatio Uniacke Townshend (5B00)
| Date of Birth: | 28 Mar 1816 |
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| Date of Death: | 15 Feb 1897 |
| Generation: | 6th |
| Residence: | Rathmoyle, Abbeyleix and Blackrock, Dublin |
| Father: | Thomas Townsend [509] |
| Mother: | Uniacke, Martha |
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| See Also: | Table VB ; Scrapbook ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree |
Notes for Horatio Uniacke Townshend. See also
Horatio was born in Cork.
Married 16 June 1841. Louisa Jane Clarke was the daughter of John Clarke of Wilfield, Co Dublin.
Horatio was admitted to Trinity College, Dublin in February 1833 and was a pupil of Thomas Kearney, County surveyor for the East Riding of Co. Limerick. The TCD Graduation List records that he qualified BA in Summer 1839. Samuel Townsend [6B13], Horace Payne Townshend [5D12], Aubrey de Vere Townsend [621] and William Hotham Townsend [6B18] were undergraduates at Trinity at the same time.
After his graduation Horatio was appointed county surveyor for the North Riding of Co. Tipperary, having successfully sat the county surveyorship examination the previous December in 1838. In August 1845 he moved to Co. Laois where he remained until he retired, aged 67, in May 1883 on the grounds of age and ill health. After his retirement he conducted an enquiry for the Board of Works on the feasibility of a tramline from Skibbereen to Schull in Co. Cork.
During the time that he was County Surveyor Co. Laois Horatio lived at Rathmoyle, Abbeyleix, and when he retired he moved to Waltyham Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, where he remained until his death. He was buried in the Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
Burke's Irish Family Records shows Horatio's birth as 1826 - this is clearly wrong as he would only have been 15 when he married. His brother William Uniacke [5B01] was born in 1826.