The fundamental ionisation mechanism used was discovered by John Sealy Townsend by his work between 1897 and 1901, and is known as the Townsend discharge, which is the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

The British administration, which began with Robert Townsend Farquhar as governor, was followed by rapid social and economic changes.

Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.

Werblin's partners, Townsend B. Martin, Leon Hess, Donald C. Lillis, and Philip H. Iselin, had a falling out with Werblin over the way the team was run — though the franchise had begun to make a profit, Werblin was making all the policies and decisions himself with little or no input from his partners, much to their dismay.

The PET / CT scanner, attributed to Dr David Townsend and Dr Nutt was named by TIME Magazine as the medical invention of the year in 2000.

On defense, their three-man front was led by Pro Bowl defensive linemen Howie Long and Lyle Alzado, along with rookie Greg Townsend, who recorded 10. 5 sacks and a 66-yard fumble return touchdown.

" The Chronicle for Aug. 3 and 4, 1923, says the same thing the Examiner does, that Harding's body was taken from the Palace Hotel directly to the train depot at Third and Townsend.

Even though he was farming potatoes and wheat on his land, he was also the postmaster for Port Townsend, Washington and rowed a boat daily across the inlet in order to work at the post office there.

Charles Townsend, his batting partner when he reached the milestone, said that as he approached his hundred: " This was the one and only time I ever saw him flustered ..." Eventually Sammy Woods bowled a full toss which Grace drove for four to reach his century.

Margaret was chaperoned by Peter Townsend, the King's equerry.

Peter Townsend was appointed Comptroller of her mother's household.

By 1953, Townsend was divorced from his first wife ; he proposed marriage to Margaret.

" The Queen was counselled by her private secretary to post Townsend abroad, but she refused, instead transferring him from the Queen Mother's household to her own.

She reportedly accepted his proposal a day after learning from Peter Townsend that he intended to marry a young Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne, who was half his age and bore a striking resemblance to Margaret.

Her affair with Peter Townsend and the Queen's dealing with this was the subject of the first episode of the Channel 4 Docudrama The Queen in which she was portrayed by Katie McGrath

The first reported completion of all the Munros plus the subsidiary tops in one continuous expedition was by Chris Townsend in 1996.

He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 in mathematics, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.

In 1861 The Spectator was bought by a journalist, Meredith Townsend, who soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, a theologian whose friend William Gladstone later called ‘ the first critic of the nineteenth century ’.

In 1887 Townsend was succeeded by John St Loe Strachey, a young aristocrat who had replaced H. H.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and promised, if elected, to increase school funding, balance the budget, and protect the Chesapeake Bay.

The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected to the International American Methodist Episcopal Youth Council ( IAMEYC ).

Though Maryland traditionally votes Democratic and had not elected a Republican Governor in almost 40 years, Townsend lost the race, gaining 48 % of the vote to Ehrlich's 51 % and Lancaster's 1 %.

Following service around the world in the British Army, Townsend was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath at the February 1974 election, and held the seat until retiring at the 1997 election.

Townsend was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives and served one term during the 1903-04 session as a member of the Addicks, or Union Republican, faction of the Republican Party.

Townsend was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1928, defeating incumbent Democratic U. S. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. and was reelected in 1934, defeating former Democratic U. S. Representative Wilbur L. Adams.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1940, this time defeating the incumbent Republican Senator John G. Townsend, Jr. During this term, he served with the Democratic majority in the 77th, 78th, and 79th Congress.

In 1961, Rockefeller was named Arkansas Republican national committeeman, having succeeded Wallace Townsend, a lawyer in Little Rock who had held the position since 1928.

Thereafter, the Iowa-born Townsend, who had also been his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1916 against the Democrat Charles Hillman Brough, was the long-term Republican national committeeman from Arkansas, having served until 1961, when Winthrop Rockefeller assumed the position.

He defeated attorney Wallace Townsend, an Iowa antive who later served as the long-term Republican national committeeman from Arkansas.

A Republican, he became governor after defeating Democratic opponent Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a member of the Kennedy family, 51 % to 48 % in the 2002 elections.

In 1986, Townsend became the first Kennedy to lose a general election when she ran for the U. S. House of Representatives in Maryland's strongly Republican second congressional district, using the name Townsend only.

In the general election, Glendening and Townsend beat Republican candidate Ellen Sauerbrey in one of Maryland's closest and most controversial gubernatorial elections.

In the Maryland gubernatorial election of 2002, Townsend faced off against Republican Robert Ehrlich and Libertarian Spear Lancaster.

* Charles Townsend ( Ohio politician ) ( 1834 – 1900 ), Republican politician in Ohio

Bayard lost his bid for a second full term in 1928 to Republican John G. Townsend, Jr., the former Governor.

He ran for the US Senate in 2010 for Chuck Schumer's seat, but lost the Republican primary to Jay Townsend, who in turn lost the general election.

On June 1, 2010, with considerable support from the New York Tea Party movement, Berntsen was named the Republican designee for US Senate against incumbent US Senator Chuck Schumer from New York and faced a Republican primary against Jay Townsend who received the Conservative party designation.

While Lea was certainly an old time Republican industrialist of New Castle County, he was different in that he saw the positive side of Addicks ' efforts, formed close friendships with rising young politicians from lower Delaware like John G. Townsend, Jr., and was counted among the Union Republicans.

He ran for the office of Governor of Delaware in 1916, but was defeated by Republican John G. Townsend, Jr., a businessman from Selbyville, Delaware.

* Townsend Harris, the first United States Consul-General to Japan

He is unable to get the police, the judge, or even his mother ( Jessie Royce Landis ) to believe what happened to him, especially when a woman at Townsend's residence says he got drunk at her dinner party ; she also remarks that Lester Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.

" Narrowly avoiding recapture, Thornhill takes a taxi to the General Assembly building of the United Nations, where Townsend is due to deliver a speech.

Townsend is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

Townsend is a city in and the county seat of Broadwater County, Montana, United States.

Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.

Townsend is a town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.

* Port Townsend, Washington, a city in Jefferson County, WA, in the United States.

William H. Dentzel of Port Townsend, Washington is the only descendant from a founding American carousel family of the United States still making wooden carousels.

In 2011, several former senior US officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, three former chairmen of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, two former directors of the CIA, former commander of NATO Wesley Clark, two former US Ambassadors to the United Nations, the former U. S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a former White House Chief of Staff, a former commander of the United States Marine Corps, former U. S. National Security Advisor Frances Townsend, and US President Barack Obama's retired National Security Adviser General James L. Jones called for the MEK to be removed from its official listing on the U. S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, on the grounds that they constituted a viable opposition to the Iranian regime.

* Townsend Building ( also " the Old Drugstore "), a historic site in Lake Butler, Florida, United States

The Union Party was a short-lived political party in the United States, formed in 1936 by a coalition of radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend, and Gerald L. K. Smith, who had taken control of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth movement after Long's assassination in 1935.

Some small towns in the United States whose residents wish to retain their distinctive character such as Provincetown, Massachusetts and other Cape Cod villages ; McCall, Idaho ; Port Townsend, Washington ; Ogunquit, Maine ; and Carmel-by-the-Sea, California closely regulate, even exclude, chain stores.

In 1951, Townsend joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea.

Just about any ornithologist active in the United States during the first half of the 19th century, including John James Audubon, William Bartram, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, John Cassin, Thomas Nuttall, George Ord, John Kirk Townsend, and Alexander Wilson ( the " father " of American ornithology ), either operated out of or worked closely with The Academy of Natural Sciences.

Fort Worden, located in Port Townsend, Washington and four United States Navy ships have been named USS Worden for him.

Townsend was appointed in 1923 as a member of the International Joint Commission created to regulate the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada, in which capacity he served until his death in Jackson.

Townsend Harris ( October 3, 1804 – February 25, 1878 ) was a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan.

Townsend Harris had the US Legation relocate at the Zenpuku-ji Temple from 1859, following the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( United States-Japan ) | Treaty of Amity and Commerce.

" Masao Miyoshi asserts in his book As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States ( 1860 ) that the restrictive lifestyle for Townsend Harris as ambassador in Japan " had forever molded the opener of Japan into a hermit " for the rest of his life while in New York City.

However, in Melbourne against South Melbourne, United lost 3 – 2 ( with goals by Mile Sterjovski and Danny Townsend ) in front of 15, 000 fans.

The 250th Anniversary celebrated in 1999, with a new history book, A sentinel on the street ; St Matthew's United Church, Halifax 1749-1999 by Elizabeth Townsend, et al.

Point Wilson is at the end of the Quimper Peninsula, a northeast extension of the Olympic Peninsula and the northeastern most point of Jefferson County, Washington, United States, approximately two miles north of the Port Townsend business district.