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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

attributed to Charles Jervas
oil on canvas, circa 1724
49 1/2 in. x 39 3/4 in. (1257 mm x 1010 mm)
Purchased, 1915
Primary Collection
NPG 1755

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  • Charles Jervas (1675-1739), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 40 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

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Notorious thief and jailbreaker John 'Jack' Sheppard is hanged at Tyburn.
General George Wade is sent to inspect Scotland, initiating an 11-year program of road improvement and bridge building in the Scottish Highlands.

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First of Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters is published; one of seven pamphlets railing against the debasement of Irish coinage.
Blenheim Palace is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.



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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.
King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

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