Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Thomas Twysden

by John Hutchinson

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Sir Thomas Twysden,

JUDGE,

Was the brother of the preceding, and born at Roydon Hall, East Peckham, in 1602. He was educated at Cambridge and at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the Bar in 1625. He soon acquired great reputation as an advocate, and was made a Sergeant by Cromwell, who, however, committed him to the Tower for his defence of Cony's case. At the Restoration, he was sworn in one of the Justices of the King's Bench, and knighted. He was esteemed as a sound lawyer and upright Judge, though somewhat passionate. The King made him a baronet in 1666, and he purchased the estate of East Mailing, where he died in 1683.

[See Wood's "Athenæ," Foss's "Judges," and "Hasted's Kent.]