Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, was an English Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1714 to 1717 and again from 1721 to 1730. He directed British foreign policy in close collaboration with his brother-in-law, prime minister Robert Walpole. He was often known as Turnip Townshend because of his strong interest in farming turnips and his role in the British Agricultural Revolution.
Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, FRS, was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.
Marquess Townshend is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by the Townshend family of Raynham Hall in Norfolk. The title was created in 1787 for George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend.
Baron Avebury, of Avebury in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created 22 January 1900 for the banker, politician and archaeologist Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the third Baron. He was the son of Harold Fox Pitt Lubbock, fourth son of the first Baron, who died in 1971. The title then passed to the third Baron's first cousin, the fourth Baron, the son of Maurice Fox Pitt Lubbock, sixth son of the first Baron. The fourth baron was a Liberal Democrat politician and one of the ninety excepted hereditary peers who remained in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Baron, in 2016.
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Whig for 33 years between 1717 and 1754.
Sir John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet FRS, was an English banker.
John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1728, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hobart.
Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone was an English politician, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747.
Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet was an English Anglican prelate who served as Bishop of Chester from 1708 to 1714 and then as Archbishop of York from 1714 to 1724. Politically he was a Hanoverian Tory, who favoured the Hanoverian Succession.
Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet PC, of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1761 to 1770.
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle KG, styled Viscount Morpeth until 1738 was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1738 when he succeeded to the Peerage as Earl of Carlisle.
William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth FRS of Oxnead, Norfolk and Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middlesex was a British peer and politician.
Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet, of Gillingham, Norfolk, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1738.
Sir Thomas Gooch, 2nd Baronet (1674–1754) was an English bishop.
The title of Lord Ross was a Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1499 for Sir John Ross, of Halkhead.
Other Lewis Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth DL was a British peer, styled Lord Windsor until 1732.
Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet of Warham, Norfolk was an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 43 years from 1695 to 1738. He was a brother-in-law of Sir Robert Walpole, and held public office almost continuously from 1707. By 1730 he was the longest-serving MP in the House of Commons.
Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton was a British politician.
Lubbock is an English surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet, of Gunton and Suffield, Norfolk, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from between 1734 and 1754.