Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet (2 January 1602 – 2 January 1683) 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 the regicides.
Biography
Twisden was the second son of
Moyle Finch.[1] He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1614. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1617 and called to the Bar in 1626. In 1646 he became a Bencher.[2] He changed the spelling of his surname to Twisden.[1]
Twisden was
Member of Parliament for Maidstone in the latter part of the Long Parliament but was excluded in 1648 under Pride's Purge.[3]
Twisden became
Sir Henry Vane the Younger for treason, and of John Bunyan and George Fox. Despite his persecution of leading Quakers like Bunyan and Fox he was, by the standards of the age he lived in, generally considered a mild enough man in religious matters. He was created a baronet, of Twisden of Bradbourne, Kent, on 13 June 1666. He retired from the Bench in 1678, pleading age and ill health.[1]
Family
Twisden married Jane Tomlinson, daughter of John Tomlinson, of St Michael's-le-Belfry, York, and Eleanor Dodsworth, and sister of the regicide
Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d John Debrett, William Courthope, Debrett's Baronetage of England: with alphabetical lists of such baronetcies
- ^ a b "Twisden, Thomas (TWSN614T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b History of Parliament Online - Twisden, Thomas
External links
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- Hutchinson, John (1892). . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. p. 136.
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