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Charles Townshend (1725-1767) Educated at Lincoln's Inn; Clare College, Cambridge; and at Leiden University, he was first elected to Parliament in 1747 at age twenty-two. Because of his family's closeness with the then first minister, Henry Pelham, and his brother, the Duke of Newcastle, he was appointed to the Board of Trade and Plantations in 1749, where he gained considerable familiarity ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Charles Townshend [1] Townshend, 2d Viscount (toun´zĕnd), 1674–1738, English statesman. A leading Whig in the reign of Queen Anne, he served as a commissioner to negotiate the union (1707) with Scotland and as ambassador (1708–11) to the Netherlands.
9 de nov. de 2009 · Townshend Duties . The Townshend Acts, named after Charles Townshend, British chancellor of the Exchequer, imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies.
9 de nov. de 2023 · With the five Townshend Acts, Parliament effectively doubled down on its right to tax the colonies, citing the Declaratory Act of 1766 as its justification. Charles Townshend died suddenly on 4 September 1767 and did not live to see the colossal impact his acts had on the relationship between Britain and its colonies.
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, KG PC FRS (/ ˈ t aʊ n z ən d /; 18 April 1674 – 21 June 1738) was an English Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1714 to 1717 and again from 1721 to 1730.
In 1767, Charles Townshend, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, imposed a series of new taxes designed to raise revenue. All imports of glass, lead, paint, and tea were to be taxed, new customs officials were to be sent to the colonies to collect, and courts of admiralty were created to prosecute violators and smugglers.
8 de jun. de 2024 · Townshend Acts, (June 15–July 2, 1767), in colonial U.S. history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue ...
