Member of Parliament, Royalist, prisoned for 7 years, Survey of Kent, author, Decem Scriptores.
Upon the passing of his father, succeeded as 2nd Baronet Twysden of Roydon (est. 1611 in the Baronetage of England). The title granted him equivalent status to a knight.
David L. Smith, ‘Twysden, Sir Roger, second baronet (1597–1672)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 3 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
Thepeerage.com Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Bt. Cites: George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 74 and Ashworth P. Burke, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 75th edition (London, U.K.: Harrison and Sons Ltd, 1913), page 1914.
Jacqueline Eales, ‘Twysden , Isabella, Lady Twysden (1605–1657)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 accessed 3 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes
"... he had retired to the seclusion of Roydon, there to spend the remainder of his life. Nevertheless, he attended the Bench regularly, and it was while riding through Malling Wood on his way to Petty Sessions on June 27th, 1672, that he fell from his horse in an apoplectic fit and died, in the seventy-fifth year of his age."
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