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Excerpt from The Irish Parliament 1775: From an Official and Contemporary Manuscript
The Change, however, was not effected until 1767, when the Marquis Townshend, the brother of Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was appointed to the lieu tenancy. Townshend, a keen soldier and an e¿icient general, had done good service in Canada, though be excited derision by his vaingloriousness and indignation by arrogating to himself more than his share in Wolfe's victory. He was able and courageous, and was frank and jovial in manner, but his genius was erratic he was utterly deficient in tact and judg ment, and was prone to dissipation. He was sent over to break the power of the undertakers, and form a party under the direct control of the Crown, and to obtain the consent of Parliament to an augmentation of the army. George rightly judged that the military forces of the Crown were too small and as it would have been difficult to obtain a vote for the increase of the army maintained by Great Britain, he desired to raise the number of men on the Irish establishment, the British garrison quartered in and maintained by Ireland, from to and in order to obtain this augmentation the Government was prepared to make certain concessions to the patriotic party in Ireland.
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