How to Pronounce Chauncy Hare Townshend
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Apr 20, 1798 Died on 25 Feb 1868 (aged 69)
English poet
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About Chauncy Hare Townshend
- Chauncy Hare Townshend, whose surname was spelt by his parents as Townsend (10 April 1798, Godalming, Surrey – 25 February 1868), was a 19th-century English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante and hypochondriac.
- He is mostly remembered for bequeathing his collections to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) and the Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
- He added an 'h' to his surname in 1835, upon inheriting; his first name was often spelled "Chauncey".
