Patrick Philip Achilles Townshend (6A50)
| Date of Birth: | 15 Jun 1914 |
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| Date of Death: | 28 Oct 1978 |
| Generation: | 8th |
| Residence: | Kenya and Kettering |
| Father: | Major Philip Achilles Kingston Townshend OBE [6A25] |
| Mother: | Earnshaw-Howell, Zoë Elaine |
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| See Also: | Table VIA ; Scrapbook ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree |
Notes for Patrick Philip Achilles Townshend
Married 1st. In Blyth, Suffolk in 1936 Josephine Desiree Rutherford (1). Married 2nd. In Kensington, London in 1941 Micheline Alice Louise Schwartz (2).
Patrick farmed coffee at Hawks West Farm, Kiminini in Kenya.
The brothers Herbert Eyre Dalrymple Townsend [5B30] and Percy Dalrymple Townsend [5B31] went to Kenya some time in the late 1920's and settled at Kitale. Records in the CRB Africa Group in Nairobi show that the brothers farmed in Njoro with Percy specifically at the "Thurlestone Estate". The records also show a "GM Townsend" farming at Nakuru and at Kitale - presumably George Marsden Townshend [5D30], who previously worked for the Indian Forestry Service but lost a leg when he was attacked by a tiger, and a "PPA Townsend" at Hawks West Farm; this would have been Patrick Philip.
(1) Josephine was born in 1915 in Greenwich, London and died on 28 January 1939 in Kitale, Kenya. A cutting from 'The Times' reads, "Townshend. On 28 January 1939 at Kitale, Kenya, Josephine Desiree, dearly loved wife of Patrick Philip Achilles Townshend and daughter of Mr and Mrs Rutherford, Behar, India, aged 20."
(2) Micheline was born in 1922, died on 21 December 2019 in Kettering.