Townshend (Townsend), H. J.

Surname: Townshend (Townsend)
Forename(s): H. J.
Poet. Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for The Thresher’s Song, published on 5 August 1865, which lists the author as H. Townshend, care of Miss Meteyard, Wildwood, North End, Hampstead (NLS 341/310). The entry for The Chrysanthemum, published on 4 November 1865, has the author as H. J. Townsend, also care of Miss Meteyard. The 1871 England Census has the author Eliza Meteyard (1816-1879) at this address (Ancestry). Possibly the painter Henry James Townsend (1810-1890). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 2
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Thresher’s Song 1865-08-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7178
The Chrysanthemum 1865-11-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7191