Thomas Twysden Bt (1602 - 1683)

Born 8 Jan 1602 in East Peckham, Kent, England [uncertain]

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Died 2 Jan 1683 at age 80 in East Malling, Kent, England

Biography

Thomas Twysden Bt is Notable.

"Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet (8 January 1602 – 2 January 1683)^[1][2][3] was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in two periods between 1646 and 1660. He was a High Court judge who presided at the trial of regicides" ^[4]

Thomas Twysden was born in 1602, the second son of Sir William Twysden Bt. and his wife, Anne Finch. ^[5] They lived at the manor of Bradbourne in the parish of Sevenoaks.

He married Jane Tomlinson, daughter of John Tomlinson and his wife, Eleanor Dodsworth.^[6] They were parents of 5 sons, 2 of whom died in Thomas' lifetime, and 6 daughters.^[5]

Although he was the son of a baronet, he did not inherit his father's title (Twysden of Roydon). Instead, in 1666 he was created Baronet Twisden of Bradbourne, co. Kent in the Baronetage of England. This title gave him the equivalent status of a knight.

Thomas passed away 2 January 1683 at Bradbourne, East Malling and was buried at East Malling. ^[5][1][2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Paul D. Halliday, Twisden [formerly Twysden, Sir Thomas, first baronetfree (1602–1683)], OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography, 03 Jan 2008. Accessed 8 Jan 2024.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage, 1934, p. 2371.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Basil Duke Henning, The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Boydell & Brewer, 1983, p. 616.
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} History of Parliament online 1660-1690: TWISDEN, Thomas (1602-83), of Bradbourne House, nr. Maidstone, Kent
6. ↑ Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions: Page 203 Thomlinson of Whitby

• Wikidata: Item Q7529294, en:Wikipedia - 1st Baronet

• Marie-Louise Coolahan, ‘Twysden , Anne, Lady Twysden (1574–1638)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Paul D. Halliday, ‘Twisden , Sir Thomas, first baronet (1602–1683)’, 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.

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 57 Twysden, Thomas by James McMullen Rigg