Brewer's: Turnip Townsend

The brother-in-law of Sir Robert Walpole, who, after his retirement from office in 1731, devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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