Background
Twisden was the second son of Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet of Roydon, East Peckham, Kent and his wife Lady Ann Finch.
Twisden was the second son of Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet of Roydon, East Peckham, Kent and his wife Lady Ann Finch.
Emmanuel College.
He was a High Court judge who presided at the trial of regicides. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1614. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in November 1617 and called to the Bar in 1626.
In 1646 he became a Bencher.
He changed the spelling of his surname to Twisden. Twisden became Sergeant at Law in 1654 and purchased the manor of Bradbourne House.
East Malling, Kent in 1656. After the Restoration, he was Member of Parliament for Maidstone again in 1660.
He became a judge and was knighted in 1660 and presided at the trials of regicides.
He was created a baronet, of Twisden of Bradbourne, Kent, on 13 June 1666. Twisden married Jane Tomlinson, daughter of John Tomlinson, of Street Michael"s-le-Belfry, New York
Twisden was Recorder of Maidstone, and in 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in the latter part of the Long Parliament but was excluded in 1648 under Pride"s Purge.