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Alfred M. Townsend

Banker

Centurion, 1890–1927

Full Name Alfred Markham Townsend

Born February 1847 in Grasby, Lincolnshire, England

Died 16 April 1939 in London, England

Proposed by James Waldemar Hayward and William L. Booker

Elected 1 November 1890 at about age forty-three

Archivist’s Note: He is listed as having died 10 October 1927 in the necrology appearing in the 1928 Yearbook, but there is no memorial tribute for him there and he was in fact still living. His name does not appear in subsequent yearbooks up through his death in 1939.