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

John Elliotson, M.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College London, senior physician to University College Hospital — and, in concert with