Matthew Townsend

 was a member of the clergy with an interest in scientific advancement. To this end he got himself posted to Cardington airbase in the 1950ss. He would have got there earlier but he had to look after his niece. He was interested in how a lot of the creatures on Earth followed the same design: two eyes, two lungs, one brain etc., but others like spiders didn't. to this end he was interested in the Dionysus Project. However he was so interested that he overloaded the machine and tore a rip in the fabric of reality and saw the Divergence. (BFA: Zagreus)

"Rebirth"
While dealing with the aftermath of the explosion of Anti-Time, the TARDIS created a series of holographic projections, taken partly from reality and partly from the memories of the Doctor, Charley Pollard and the TARDIS itself. One such projection it created was the event at Cardington, looking for information on the Divergence. Inside this projection it placed Charley in the role of a Ministry driver and itself in the role the Minister for Defence.

Soon after, the TARDIS was drawn into a special corner of the Matrix and reduced to scrap by Rassilon and Zagreus. Before being destroyed, though, it recreated projections of Lord Provost Tepesh and Uncle Winkie in the Matrix to help return fragments of the Doctor's mind to him. The projection of Townsend could read equations in Old High Gallifreyan though he thought it was Greek. He was killed with a dagger forged from the essence of the TARDIS. (BFA: Zagreus)