The Marchioness of Townshend was born Gwladys Ethel Gwendolen Eugénie Sutherst. Anne Townshend (née Montgomery), Marchioness Townshend ('The Marchioness of Townshend in her full Court dress, as worn by her Ladyship, on the Queen's Birth day, 1806') published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine etching, published 1 March 1806 8 1/2 in. The 7th Marquess Townshend, who died on St George's Day aged 93, was a Norfolk landowner on a grand scale and a pioneer of commercial broadcasting as the founder chairman of Anglia Television; he was also the longest known holder of a British peerage, having been the fruit of a marriage which scandalised Edwardian England more than a century ago. Lady Clementina, to whom the tune title probably refers, died in 1925. While this may not be true (but probably is), it did end up being something Gwladys would later capitalise on to further her own career as a writer. For instance, the Bioscope in July 1914 relates how she “kindly granted” them an interview, and promises that actors in her future films would have “the advantage of Lady Townshend’s personal supervision and advice,” awarding her a symbolic status that did not go with the job (429-431). The title honors either Elizabeth Jane Crichton-Stuart, daughter of Lord George Stuart, who married a naval commander, John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend (1798-1863). Scenarios in this period were often barely worked-out ideas, but Townshend seems to have given her work an unusual amount of creative attention. George John Patrick Dominic Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend (13 May 1916 – 23 April 2010), styled Viscount Raynham until 1921, was a British peer and businessman. I certainly have no difficulty in weaving stories, and I think I have always been in the habit of doing that in dramatic form, but, after all, I think originality of treatment is the main thing, and that is essential in all classes of literary work. Having fallen on hard times, the 6th Marquess first sold off parts of his inheritance, including a lease on Raynham Hall, then set off for America – accompanied by a former curate and amateur hypnotist called Robbins, who had some influence over him – to find a rich wife. In her 1937 autobiography, It Was and It Wasn’t, Townshend writes that she also inspired two fellow peeresses to write scenarios, the Countesses of Warwick and Roden. His education was at Harrow School, where he contracted a near-fatal case of septicaemia caused by a cricket injury. [3] Townshend sat as a Conservative, attending debates irregularly until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.[4]. A countryman at heart despite the growing demands of business life, and proud of his descent from the great 18th-century agriculturalist, he was active in the running of the home farm and at his ease among his farming tenants and neighbours. I am too fond of the stage to wish for the cinematograph to enter into direct competition with it. George John Patrick Dominic Townshend was born in London on May 13 1916, the only son of the 6th Marquess, who achieved some notoriety after a series of court cases revealed the uncomfortable truth that his wedding in 1905 to George's mother, Gladys Sutherst, was a hard-nosed commercial arrangement. This film was reviewed in the Bioscope, but received less attention and therefore the Bioscope itself refers to The Convent Gate (1913) as Townshend’s third film. Lord Townshend married first, in 1939, Elizabeth Luby, daughter of a judicial commissioner in the Indian Civil Service. She remarried. Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. The Esoteric Curiosa. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer Alexander Walker (b. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. We can only speculate about the films with which she was involved, but her opinions are interesting. In 1940 he transferred to the Scots Guards and volunteered for its ski battalion, which was formed to fight the Russians in Finland, after training at Chamonix; but neutral Sweden refused permission for British troops to cross its territory, and the unit was swiftly disbanded. I think the time is certainly coming when much more will be done in that direction, in which, at present, we are rather behind other countries. They have one daughter. Sources:'Interview with the Marchioness Townshend', Bioscope, 30 July 1914, p. 429. In the same interview, Townshend mentions that she had written “one or two costume plays” that remained unproduced because there was no interest in that genre. Townshend, Gladys Ethyl Gwendolen Eugenia Sutherst. Other books by Townshend included a book of poems, In the King’s Garden (1906), and a novel, The Widening Circle (1920). He was also a long-serving director of London Merchant Securities, the property-development empire created by Max (later Lord) Rayne. Marchioness Townshend on the cover of The Bystander, 1905. Like her aunt Sara Jane SUTHERST, my 2x great grandmother, Gwladys was a gifted writer. An example of this melodrama is in the final scenario of When East Meets West (1915), where a fakir uses hypnotism to explode light bulbs filled with poisonous gas from a distance in order to rob unsuspecting Westerners. He was also a firm upholder of moral standards on the small screen. But Townshend’s status was no longer required since the status of British film was improving by other means. He was reported to have seen and accurately described "the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall" (the ghost of "Turnip" Townshend's wife, Lady Dorothy Walpole) and to have received letters, signed "a British Communist", threatening to kidnap him – to which his mother responded: "His assailants will have to look out, for he is a very clever little boxer.". His political reputation a shambles, he determined around 1870 to devote himself to private philanthropy and took up a number of causes, both deserving and non-deserving. They have two children. Gwladys was destined for a notorious life, having bought her way into royalty. Elizabeth Clemintina (nee Duff), Marchioness of Townshend National Portrait Gallery, London The Marchioness referred to in this tune is Anne Elizabeth Clementina (née Duff), who married John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend on 17 October 1865. In an attempt to save their reputation, the Suthersts claimed the Marquess was a lunatic and locked him away. Shortly after the wedding, Sutherst tried to have the marquess declared insane: a court found him incapable of managing his own financial affairs, but sane enough to remain at liberty, under the care of his wife. The moral is the foundation of the play, but its main object, of course, is to interest the public, and that object, I believe, is best gained with the help of melodrama, which is an ingredient of nearly every great play.”, “Then I believe also in absolute realism. (1906). Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend. Townshend Lunacy Case. A Minor. Sadly, none survives. The marquessate was granted in 1787 to the 4th Viscount, a military man who served under Wolfe at Quebec and was later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Low, Rachael. A Mrs Evelyn Sheffield of Jacksonville, Florida, seemed to fit the bill, but Lord Townshend broke off the engagement when he discovered she was not as rich as she had implied. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122698719?searchTerm=gladys%20sutherst%20townshend&searchLimits= : accessed 05 April 2020. One of Gwladys’ early works Maxime and Musings (1910), of which the quote at the start of this blog post refers to, is short and composed of monostichs. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine.
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