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Thomas Stewart Townsend (1800–1852) was an Irish Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland in the 19th century.He was successively Dean of Lismore and Dean of Waterford in 1850.He also became Bishop of Meath in 1850. and died in post in Malaga on 16 September 1852. His Times obituary noted that “by his death the system of national education has lost an earnest advocate”.