Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich
Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich was a British peeress, the daughter and eldest child of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, and his wife, the former Jane Warburton. She was a sister of the diarist Lady Mary Coke.
On 2 October 1742, she married Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, and took the courtesy title of Countess of Dalkeith. They became parents of the Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. Henry was styled Lord Scott of Whitchester after his brother's death, and Earl of Dalkeith after his father's death and succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Buccleuch in 1751. Their other children were:
Francis died in 1750; on 15 August 1755, Caroline married Charles Townshend. They had one child, the Hon. Anne Townshend, who married twice and had children.
On 28 August 1767, Caroline was created Baroness Greenwich in her own right, with a special remainder to her male issue by Townshend. As there were no surviving sons from her second marriage, the title became extinct upon her death in 1794, aged 76.
An excoriating sketch of Lady Greenwich's character and unkindness to her daughter was recorded by Lady Louisa Stuart in her Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas.
A drawing of Caroline by Thomas Bardwell is held by the National Gallery of Scotland.
