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Stephen Chapman Townesend[lower-alpha 1] (1860 – May 1914) F.R.C.S. was an English surgeon, stage actor, anti-vivisectionist and writer.

Stephen Townesend
Born	1860
Died	May 1914 Colney Heath
Occupation	Surgeon, writer

Townesend was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the University of Edinburgh.[1] He qualified M.R.C.S. in 1883 and F.R.C.S. in 1887. He was surgeon on the Orient Steamship Company's line, house surgeon at St Mark's Hospital and at Birmingham General Hospital.[1] Townesend was a stage actor under the name Will Dennis and assisted the Amateur Dramatic Society of St Bartholomew's Hospital.[1][2]

In 1900, he married Frances Hodgson Burnett in Genoa.[3] He was involved with the stage adaptations of her novels. They divorced two years later.[4] Townesend was an anti-vivisectionist who was described as loving animals more than people.[5]

Townesend died in Colney Heath from pneumonia in May 1914.[1][6]

Selected publications

• A Thorough-Bred Mongrel: The Tale of a Dog, Told by a Dog to Lovers of Dogs (1900)
• Dr. Tuppy (1912)

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