Chauncy Hare Townshend
Cricket Player
1798 – 1868
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Who was Chauncy Hare Townshend?
Chauncy Hare Townshend, born Chauncy Hare Townsend 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 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".
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