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    Charles Townley FRS (1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805) was a wealthy English country gentleman, antiquary and collector, a member of the Towneley family...
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    Arthur Charles Townley (December 30, 1880 – November 7, 1959) was an American political organizer best known as the founder of the National Non-Partisan...
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    The Towneley or Townley family are an English family whose ancestry can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon England. Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, was...
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    ) The English connoisseur Charles Townley paid Jenkins £400 for the statue, which arrived at the semi-public gallery Townley commissioned in Park Street...
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    Charles Townley in His Sculpture Gallery, also known as Charles Townley at His Library at no. 7 Park Street in Westminster, is an oil-on-canvas painting...
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  • of the Townley Marbles Charles Townley (officer of arms) (1713–1774), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London Doody Townley (born...
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    name comes from the English collector Charles Townley, who purchased it from Hamilton in 1774 for £250. Townley's collection, long on display in his London...
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    now on the Main Stairs, replacing Townley's Discobolus. A. H. Smith, "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21...
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  • collectors Sir Hans Sloane, Sir William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight and Charles Townley, contained items with erotic or sexually graphic images; these were...
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    the British Museum in London. The bust is one of the Townley Marbles collected by Charles Townley (1737–1805) and sold by his heir Peregrine Edward Towneley...
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    Sawrey Gilpin It is probable that Charles Townley, the noted antiquary and connoisseur, was also a patron of Barret. Townley returned from the Grand Tour in...
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  • Sir Charles Townley (7 May 1713 – 7 June 1774) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Charles Townley was born on Tower...
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    "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21 (1901: 306–321) p. 306 note 3. Townley inventories, where it is interpolated...
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    transcripts of the Hamilton-Townley correspondence, published by G. J. Hamilton and A. H. Smith, "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley" The Journal of Hellenic...
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    collected by 18th-century Grand Tourist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Charles Townley. A drawing of the bust attributed to Vincenzo Pacetti is also in the...
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  • Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France. Chairman, Rev. K. Groves, M.A., Assisted By Charles Townley, LL.D., and Mr. Luddy. pp. 8–9 Greiner & Sherman, Revised Laws of Illinois...
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  • British Museum (found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and owned by Charles Townley) and Altes Museum. Kresilas also created the wounded men and a dying...
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    works of art he recovered to his British clients, most notably to Charles Townley, to whom the painter wrote: "the most valuable acquisition a man of...
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    Rev. James Townley (6 May 1714 – 15 July 1778) was an English dramatist, the second son of Charles Townley, a merchant. Townley was born in 1714 probably...
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    several plates, and some other items that the antiquarian collector Charles Townley thought had religious uses. The finds were thought to have survived...
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    United Kingdom. It allowed the museum to acquire the Townley Collection from the estate of Charles Townley. The whole Act was repealed by section 13(5) of...
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    buildings in Lancashire Listed buildings in Burnley Richard Towneley Charles Townley "Towneley Park Management Plan". Burnley Council. Archived from the...
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    National Biography. Vol. 01. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Strachey, Charles Townley (November 1978). "The saving of Sutton Court". Gloucestershire and...
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    Maxwell’s acquisition of the Review. No. 14 was home of the antiquarian Charles Townley and later served as the office of the architectural practice T. P....
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    2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019. Tony Kitto, "The celebrated connoisseur: Charles Townley, 1737–1805" Minerva Magazine May/June 2005, in connection with a British...
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  • brother was Charles Townley 1807-1813 Thomas Strickland Standish, né Strickland maternal nephew of Edward Towneley Standish 1813-1863 Charles Strickland...
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    Charles Townley in His Sculpture Gallery (1782), Towneley Park collection...
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    Le Neve 1704–1729 Stephen Leake 1729–1741 John Cheale 1741–1751 Sir Charles Townley 1751–1756 William Oldys 1756–1761 Thomas Brown 1761–1773 Ralph Bigland...
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    in April 1711, Richard Townley was Presiding Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Essex County. He left two sons, Charles and Effingham. The Victoria...
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    December 1549. condemned for his submission to Robert Aske. Son of Sir Charles Townley Then named as George Edward Adams, Esq. Citations Jones, Francis (2011-07-25)...
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