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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.