Author talk:John Francis Twisden

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Death
Name: 	John F Twisden Registration Year: 	1914, Dec Q. Age at Death: 	89 Registration district: 	Malling Volume: 	2a Page: 	936

Alumni Cambrigienses
Name: 	John Francis Twisden

College: 	ST JOHN'S

Entered: 	Michs. 1844

BORN: 	10 Nov 1825

More Information: 	Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 19, 1844. [2nd] s. of William, lawyer's clerk, of Kennington, London (and Martha, dau. of William Billett). B. [Nov. 10, 1825], at Lambeth, Surrey; bapt. May 14, 1826. School, King's College, London. Migrated to Trinity, Oct. 12, 1844. Matric. Michs. 1844; Scholar, 1847; B.A. (7th Wrangler) 1848; M.A. 1852. Ord. deacon (Oxford) 1852; priest, 1853. Professor of Mathematics at the Staff College, Sandhurst, 1858-85. Examiner to the Science and Art Depts., 1869-1914 and to the Board of Education from 1869. P.C. of Minley, Hants., 1880-8. Married, June 4, 1855, Catherine Hester Spence, dau. of Parsons Ramskill, of Lofthouse Hall, Yorks. Succeeded in establishing his claim to the Baronetcy, as 11th Bart., 1909. Author, Elementary Introduction to the Practical Mechanics; First Lessons in Theoretical Mechanics. Latterly of Bradbourne, Larkfield, Maidstone, where he died, Dec. 6, 1914. Father of John R. (1875). (Crockford; Burke, P. and B.; Walford, County Families; Who was Who; The Times, Dec. 8, 1914.)