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On 6 May he, with Selden, Holles, William Strode, Miles Hobart, and Walter Long, considering themselves legally entitled to bail, applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus.
Townshend was twice married—first to Elizabeth (d. 1711), daughter of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton, and secondly to Dorothy Walpole (1686–1726), sister of Sir Robert Walpole and is said to haunt Raynham as Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.
His first wife was Elizabeth Trevor, daughter of Thomas Trevor of Glynde, Sussex and his second wife was Gertrude Holles, sister of Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle.
He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham and the former Elizabeth Crowley, being styled Viscount St Asaph from birth, and was baptised on 29 January 1761 at St George's, Hanover Square, London, with King George III, the Duke of Newcastle and the Dowager Princess of Wales as his godparents.
Matzendorf-Hölles is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
Joyce Grenfell reviewed the play in The Observers edition of 7 November 1937 when she said, "I had hoped to say such nice things about Agatha Christie's Yellow Iris" but found that Holles was, "the only happy thing in the broadcast".