Article: PROFILE: Aristocrat doing it for himself.

John Townshend Rapier's creative partner knows that getting major clients to be integrated is a big risk for them, but firmly believes it is the way ahead

Sara Kimberley

The Townshend family has come a long way since the second Viscount Charles was branded 'Turnip Townshend', on the back of his agricultural innovations in the 18th century.

But although Rapier's creative partner - and new chairman of the Precision Marketing Response Awards - may have claim to the family pile of Raynham Hall, direct marketing's very own 'lord' has opted to follow a different path. Yet he has retained the family tradition of being one of the top modernisers ...

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