Person Sheet


Name Sir Roger Twisden Bart [88], [15, 1715-1886, p. 1453], [66, Twisden article, vol IV, p. 32], 3C8R
Birth 4 Apr 1705
Death 7 Mar 1772, Bradbourne
Burial 16 Mar 1772, East Malling
General 2nd s. 5th bt., hr to bro. Thos. In army for a while, to 1736.
Education Trinity, Oxon: Matric: 1722, DCL: 1759.
Father Thomas Twisden (1668-1728)
Mother Anne Musters (<1680-ca1729)
Spouses
1 Elizabeth Watton [66, Twisden article, vol IV, p. 32], [88]
Birth 3 Jul 1703
Death 5 Mar 1775, Addington
Burial 11 Mar 1775, East Malling
General 3rd dau but only surviving child. Widow of Leonard Bartholomew
Father Edmund Watton
Mother Sarah
Marriage 10 Jan 1737
Children Roger (1737-1779)
  Elizabeth (1738-)
  Jane (1738-)
  Thomas Philip
  William (ca1741-1771)
  John Papillon (ca1743-1810)
Notes for Sir Roger Twisden Bart
J R Twisden sums him up as "The angry though best of parents".

His will was in favour of his eldest son Roger with remainder to the youngest John Papillon and nothing for William's then two sons.

Major in Aylesford militia. MP: 1741 and 1747.
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