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The son of Daniel Twining, tea merchant of London, he was originally intended for a commercial life, but because of his distaste for it and his fondness for study, his father decided to send him to the university. He took orders and was married in 1764 to Elizabeth Smythies (1739-1796), daughter of Palmer Smythies, rector of Street Michael"s, Colchester, who had taught him at Colchester Free Grammar School.
Sidney Sussex College.
His calls on the Burney family in London in 1775 were vividly and affectionately described by Charles Burney"s daughter Fanny: "He is a man of learning, very fond of music, and a good performer both on the harpsichord and the violin. Thomas later sent a double-folio sheet of corrections of punctuation and usage to Fanny Burney, which she incorporated into a second edition of the novel in 1802. As she put it, "I am proud that HE thinks the work worth flagellating.
Selections from Thomas Twining"s correspondence can be found in Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman of the Eighteenth Century (1882) and Selections from of the Twining Family (1887) edited by his grand-nephew Richard Twining.
See also Gentleman"s Magazine, lxxiv. 490, and J. East. Sandys, History of Classical, volunteer iii.
Twining was also an accomplished musician, and assisted Charles Burney in writing his remarkable History of Music.
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