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Dated 1739. (30" X 25".) Artist: A.
Carpentiers. (Signed at back.)
Son of Sir William and Lady Jane Twysden, 5th Bart.
Married: Mary Jarvis, daughter of George Jarvis of Thames Ditton.
He held a commission in the Army and cultivated extravagent society.
He mortgaged and sold large portions of the estate to maintain his
expenditure and died when his heir, William Jarvis, q.v., was
only 7 years old.
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H24 (262). Sir William Jarvis Twysden, 7th Bart. of Roydon.
1762-1834.
Portrait, in blue coat with white waistcoat and red under vest. High
collar and neckcloth, grey breeches. Watch chain with gold seal.
1826. (36" X 28".) Artist: Rev. E. T. Green.
Son of Sir William and Lady Mary Twysden.
Married: Francies Wynch, daughter of Alexander Wynch of Harley Street.
He eloped with her to Gretna Green when Francies was only 15 and had to
flee from his creditors to France immediately afterwards.
He, with his sons, dissipated the remnants of the Roydon |
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estates,
though one, Francis, earned an honest living as a railway porter at
Ashford, Kent.
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H25 (234). Thomas Edward Twisden, F.S.A. 1818-1887. Plate XIII.
Portrait, in black suit, with large white shirt front, with brown cape.
1865. (49 1/2" X 39 1/2".) Artist: Alcide Carlo Ercoli.
Fourth son of Captain John Twisden, R.N., who was by right the 7th
Baronet of Bradbourne, through the disinherited Lieutenant William. His
mother was Anne Hammond.
He never married, was trained as a solicitor and became senior partner
in a prosperous firm working largely for the Railway Companies. After
his father and five sisters were reinstated at Bradbourne, he not only
assisted the household financially but bought back the Park from Thomas
Law Hodges and re-collected most of the Roydon and Bradbourne portraits
between 1859-72.
Just when he was hoping to rejoin his sisters, who ran Bradbourne as
"a republic", doing everything indoors and in the gardens
themselves, his partner defaulted and the rest of his life was spent
trying to rectify the wrongs. |