TWIST, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1587, adm. scholar 1588, matr. Mich. 1587.
TWIST, ROBERT; b.; adm.; QS ; a set of verses adressed by him in 1597 to Queen Elizabeth I on the anniversary of her accession is preserved in the Royal MSS, British Library; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1599, adm. scholar 1600, but did not matr.
TWISS, QUINTIN WILLIAM FRANCIS, only son of Horace Twiss QC MP, Vice-Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, and Conservative politician, and his second wife Anne Louisa Andrewenna, widow of Charles Greenwood, and sister of Charles Stephen Francis Sterky (qv); b. 13 Mar 1835; adm. 2 Oct 1843 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1849; Capt. of the School 1852; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1853, matr. 18 May 1853, Westminster Student 1853-61; BA 1857; MA 1860; Third Class Clerk, Treasury Aug 1856 - Jan 1860; Assistant Private Secretary to Parliamentary Secretary to Treasury Jun 1859 - Jan 1860; Assistant Superintendent, County Courts Department Jan 1860 - 91; a well-known amateur actor and famous “Old Stager” in the Canterbury week; his name formerly appeared in nails in the centre of the floor of School, and it was on this spot that boys who misbehaved in form were told to “stand out”; m. 11 Apr 1861 Fanny Shelley, second dau. of William Henry Covey FRCS LSA, Wilton Street, Belgrave Square, London, surgeon; d. 7 Aug 1900.
TWISLETON, HON. THOMAS JAMES, brother of Gregory Wiliam Eardley-Twisleton-Fiennes, 11th Baron Saye and Sele (qv); b. 28 Sep 1770; adm. 4 Mar 1781; KS (Capt. ) 1785; left Sep 1788, on account of his marriage with a girl with whom he had fallen in love while engaged in amateur theatricals; one of the contributors to The Trifler; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Feb 1789; BA 1794; MA 1796; DD 1819; ordained priest (Winchester) 22 May 1796; Curate, Avington, Hampshire; Vicar of Woodford [county] 23 Jul 1796-1803; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1796, still 1797; Vicar of Blakesley, Northants, from 1 Mar 1797; Secretary and Chaplain to Government of Ceylon 1802; Archdeacon of Colombo from 1815; Rector of Broadwell, Gloucs., from 29 Aug 1821; his portrait by Hoppner as Phaedria in the Eunuchus of 1787 is preserved at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire; present at battle of Camperdown 1797; m. 1st, 4 Nov 1788 (deed of separation 17 Jun 1794, divorced 1798) Charlotte Anne Frances, dau. of John Wattell, London; m. 2nd, 7 Jun 1798 Anne, dau. of Benjamin Ashe, Bath, Somerset; d. in Ceylon 15 Aug 1824.
TWISDEN, THOMAS, brother of Philip Twisden (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1699; buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey 31 Oct 1700.
TWISDEN, SIR JOHN PAPILLON, BART. , brother of Sir Roger Twisden, Bart. (qv); bapt. 20 Jan 1742/3; at school under Markham (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 197); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1761, aged 18, read,m. as fellow commoner 18 Jan 1765, matr. 1761; BA 1765; succ. brother as 7th baronet 5 Oct 1779 (de facto, although there was a de jure claimant); m. 8 Apr 1782 Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Adm. Sir Francis Geary, Bart. , Royal Navy; d. 10 Feb 1810.
TWISDEN, SIR ROGER, BART., son of Sir Roger Twisden, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, widow of Leonard Bartholomew, Oxenhoath, Kent, and dau. of Edmund Watton, Addington, Kent; b. 7 Nov 1737; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1748 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Dec 1754, scholar 18 Apr 1755, readm. as fellow commoner 3 Feb 1759, matr. 1755; MA Oxford 5 Jul 1759; succ. father as 6th baronet 7 Mar 1772; m. 25 Jan 1779 Rebecca, dau. of Isaac Waldash; d. 5 Oct 1779.
TWISDEN, PHILIP, eldest son of Francis Twisden, East Malling, Kent, and Rebecca, widow of Thomas Hale, and dau. of Philip Lemon; b.; adm.; KS 1693; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1696, matr. 4 Jul 1696, aged 18, Westminster Student from 29 Dec 1696; Lieut., Earl of Orrery’s (afterwards Col. Kane’s) Regt. of Foot 1 Mar 1703/4, later Capt.; served at battle of Malplaquet 1709; sailed with his regiment on expedition to Canada 1711; drowned in shipwreck in St. Lawrence river 22 Aug 1711.
TWISDEN, JOHN, sixth son of Sir Roger Twisden, Bart., MP, and Margaret, dau. of Sir John Marsham, Bart. (qv); bapt. 29 Dec 1683; adm.; KS 1700; buried East Malling, Kent 22 Nov 1701.
TWISDEN, ---; b.; adm. Jun 1662; a boarder; at school 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).