A fact from Roger Townshend (courtier, died 1590) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Sir Roger Townshend's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the Spanish Armada which hung in the House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
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