John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend

He served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of Rear-Admiral.

Between 1847 and 1855 he also sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth.

In the latter year he succeeded his first cousin in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords.

Lord Townshend married Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart, daughter of Lord George Stuart, younger son of John Crichton-Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, on 18 August 1825.

They had five children: Lord Townshend died in September 1863, aged 65, as result of a fall from his horse in the grounds of his home, Raynham Hall, and was buried at East Raynham, Norfolk.