Before the 1702 English general election, he fell out with his fellow member, Sir John Holland, Bt, and refused to stand.
[3] He was not then sent abroad and in Parliament was nominated to the committee to draft a bill to regulate rates for importing coal into Great Yarmouth.
He suffered from ill=health and after receiving treatment at Ghent in October 1707, narrowly escaped drowning when the ship he was returning on foundered in bad weather.
[1] At the 1708 British general election Townshend refused to stand for Norfolk, but was returned by his brother as Whig MP for Great Yarmouth.
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