page_title: Chauncy Hare Townshend
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Chauncy Hare Townshend / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Chauncy Hare Townshend in the 1860
context_page_description: Chauncy Hare Townshend, whose surname was spelt by his parents as 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".
context_section_description: Townshend married Eliza Frances Norcott in 1826, but in 1843 they legally separated due to "unhappy differences", and he spent much of his life thereafter travelling abroad, collecting things as he went, and at his villa in Lausanne. Three further volumes of poetry emerged: Sermons in Sonnets, 1851, The Burning of the Amazon, 1856, and The Three Gates, 1859. He died on 25 February 1868 at 21 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London, and is buried in the new cemetery in Godalming.
caption: A photograph of Chauncy Hare Townshend in the 1860s
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