page_title: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: John Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Caroline, Viscountess Sydney (d. 1805) was the second daughter of the 1st Earl of Leitrim. She married the 2nd Viscount Sydney as his second wife in 1805 oil on canvas 60.7 x 51.2cm
context_page_description: John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney of St Leonards was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
context_section_description: He was twice married and both of his wives died in childbirth. His first marriage took place on 13 April 1790 to the Hon. Sophia Southwell, daughter of Sophia (née Campbell) Southwell and Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford. Before her death on 9 November 1795, they were the parents of two children together:
  Hon. Sophia Mary Townshend (d. 1852), who married John Russell, third son of Lord William Russell (himself the third son of Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock), and was the mother of Edward Russell, 23rd Baron de Clifford, a Member of Parliament for Tavistock.
  Mary Elizabeth Sydney (1794–1847), who married George James Cholmondeley (1752–1830). After his death, she married Charles Marsham, 2nd Earl of Romney.
  He married a second time, to Lady Caroline Elizabeth Letitia Clements on 27 Mat 1802. Lady Caroline was the third daughter of Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim and the former Lady Elizabeth Skeffington (the eldest daughter, by his second wife, of Clotworthy Skeffington, 1st Earl of Massereene). Before her death on 9 August 1805, they were the parents of one child together:
  John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (1805–1890), who married Lady Emily Paget (1810–1893), eldest daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey.
  Sydney died on 20 January 1831.  His death was viewed by the family "as a great release from hopeless suffering".  His titles and estate was inherited by his only son, John, who was created the first Earl Sydney, of Scadbury in the County of Kent on 27 February 1874.  As John and his wife had no children, the Earldom, Viscountcy and Barony of Sydney became extinct on his death on 14 February 1890.
caption: Lady Caroline, Viscountess Sydney, by Thomas Lawrence.
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