Ralph Douglas Townsend (born 13 December 1951, in Nedlands, West Australia)[1] is an educational consultant.
[4] Townsend took up a teaching post at Eton College in 1985 which he left in 1989 to become Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School.
While in Sydney, he was Patron of the Australian Musicians' Academy and President of the New South Wales Classical Association.
From 2008 to 2016 he was a Governor of Midhurst Rother College and from 2014 to 2019 a Trustee of St George's House Windsor Castle.
[2] Townsend has written book chapters, articles and reviews on church history, religious literature, and education, as follows: