1st Viscount of Raynham. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and he success in December, 1687. In September, 1714, King George I named Townshend the post of Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He used this position to question England's interference in the war between Sweden and Denmark, he also use it to find a way that could conclude a defensive alliances between England and France. Townshend was married twice. His first wife, Elizabeth Pelham has 5 children’s with him that were: Charles, Thomas, William, Roger, and Elizabeth. She died in 1711. He then married Dorothy, that was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, they had 7 children together, that were, George, Augustus, Horatio, Edward, Richard, Dorothy, and Mary. She died in 1726.Charles Townshend, was known as “Champagne Charlie” to his friends. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the in the time they had conflicts with the Stamp Act. He hoped to enhance his political career, by helping the financials problems. Riots in England convinced him that tax was needed in the Colonist, and this could reduce the national debt. This made sense to Townshend and others because the recent French and Indian War had been fought, and they thought the Colonist should be thanks with them because the protection they gave them. Townshend was perceptive enough to realize that during the Stamp Act Crisis, the Americans had objected to what they had described as internal taxation. So he thought to put external taxation so the Colonist should pay them, and they couldn’t have any objections. At the end this became the Townshend act, that didn’t make any happier to the Americans.
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