Edward Harrison was a British colonial administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1717 to 1726. He served as the President of Madras from 11 July 1711 to 8 Janu
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Balls Park
Etheldreda Townshend
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Audrey Etheldreda Townshend, Viscountess Townshend, was a celebrated English socialite, widely believed to have inspired the character "Lady Bellaston", the notorious fictional seductress in Henry Fie
Edward Harrison (British administrator)
…and deputy again in 1731. Harrison died on 28 November 1732. Through his marriage with Frances Bray, he had one son and three daughters, one of whom, Audrey "Etheldreda" Harrison, married Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend in 1723. Governors of Madras…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo (c. 1738)
Balls Park where Etheldreda Harrison was born in 1708, which she left to her grandson Lord John Townshend, including a large sum of money to completely refurbish it
Copy of a miniature of "My Lady Townshend" belonging to Horace Walpole, after Zincke