Note 487 — INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTER IX
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Charles, second Viscount Townshend, K.G., married Dorothy, sister of Sir Robert Walpole. Townshend was President of the Council 1720, and afterwards Secretary of State. There was jealousy between the brothers-in-law, and Horace Walpole sarcastically observed that things went well or ill according as the style of the firm was Townshend and Walpole or Walpole and Townshend.