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Extract from the last Will and Testament
of Sir John
Ramskill Twisden, Baronet, 29.11.1929.
"11. I Bequeath to my Executors all my portraits of
members of Twysden and Twisden family and of persons related to that
family hereinafter called "my Family Portraits" UPON TRUST to
deliver to the Trustees for the time being of the National Portrait
Gallery to be exhibited there—
(First) either the two miniatures framed together of Sir William Twysden
first Baronet of Roydon Hall and his Wife or in lieu thereof the
portrait in oils of the same Sir William
(Secondly) one of the portraits of Sir Roger Twysden Second Baronet of
Roydon Hall.
(Thirdly) One of the Portraits of Sir Thomas Twisden First Baronet of
Bradbourne.
(Fourthly) One of the portraits of Dr. John Twisden their brother.
(Fifthly) The portrait of Colonel Matthew Thomlinson and (Sixthly) such
other of my Family Portraits as the |
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Trustees for
the time being of the said Gallery may desire to have and subject to the
foregoing bequests my Executors shall hold the remainder of my Family
Portraits UPON TRUST for the Kent Archæological Society provided that
my Executors shall be satisfied that such Society can make proper
provision for their custody but if my Executors shall not be so
satisfied or failing the acceptance thereof by the said Society my
Executors shall hold the remainder of my Family Portraits UPON TRUST for
the Corporation of Maidstone for their Museum upon the same conditions
as to provision being made for their custody but in case my Executors
shall not be satisfied as aforesaid or failing the
1 Sources: The Family of
Twysden and Twisden—their
History and archives from an original by Sir John Ramskill Twisden, 12th
Baronet of Bradbourne; completed by C. H. Dudley Ward, D.S.O., M.C. John
Murray, Albemarle Street, London, W. 1939. "Catalogue of The
Bradbourn Pictures" (Z.K. 1863) and the "Manuscript
Catalogue compiled by Sir John Ramskill Twisden," 1912. |