1st Baron Bayning
of Foxley, Berkshire.

• For many years, ambassador to the Court of Spain, and was known as "Spanish Charles" to differentiate himself from his cousin Rt.Hon. Charles Townshend
• He was, together with his cousin Lord Sydney, an associate of Captain Cook. In fact, Cape Townshend on the east coast of Australia (near Brisbane?) was named after him long before he was created Baron Bayning in 1797. (See Cook's journal.)
• His children died without issue and the line became extinct. His sons apparently used the name Powlett in lieau of Townshend (1823?) although it appears that his daughters kept their Townshend name. It is speculated that the name change could have occured as a condition of inheriting the Powlett estates (Foxley and/or Honingham).
  
  

Honningham Hall, a fine Elizabethan mansion, in an extensive and well-wooded park, was erected (except the south front,) by Lord Chief Justice Richardson, and afterwards sold to the Hon. William Townshend who married Henrietta Powlett, the heiress of Lord Powlett.

Charles Townshend, son of Rt.Hon. William Townshend would have inherited Honingham Hall from his father. He was created Baron Bayning, of Foxley (Berks.,) in 1797, and was, for many years, ambassador to the Court of Spain. He died in 1810, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles, who died unmarried in 1823, when his brother, the present lord, succeeded.

Honningham itself was a village on the East Dereham road, 8 miles northwest of Norwich. Its parish was in St. Faith's Union, and had 358 souls. Its 2527 acres of land was the property of the Rt. Hon. & Rev. Henry William Powlett, Lord Bayning, the lord of the manor, who was rector of Brome, in Suffolk. He resided at times at Honingham Hall. These lands would have been inherited by Charles Townshend, Baron Bayning when his maternal grandfather died.

Foxley in Berkshire also belonged to the Powletts as their original Bayning title was associated with it. Foxley could therefore not have been inherited through the Smyths as some sources indicate.

[The location of Foxley, Berkshire is certainly Foxley manor or Foxley Green, in the parish of Bray, near Slough. It is not Foxley, Wiltshire where Charles James Fox, a Townshend associate, comes from. This new Berkshire location might be relevant as it is only 6-7 miles away from Wexham where Richard Townshend is thought to have come from.]