Richard Bowdler Townsend (26 March 1829 – 10 February 1852) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Richard Edward Austin Townsend, he was born at Chelsea in March 1829.
He was educated at Rugby School,[1] before going up to University College, Oxford.
[3] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 6 runs by William Lillywhite in the Oxford first-innings.
[2] This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1820s is a stub.