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SIR TRAVERS TWISS (1809-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 493 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR TRAVERS See also:TWISS (1809-1897)  , See also:English jurist, eldest son of the Rev . See also:Robert See also:Twiss, was See also:born in See also:London on the 19th of See also:March 1809 . At University See also:College, See also:Oxford, he obtained a first-class in See also:mathematics and a second in See also:classics in 183o, and was elected a See also:fellow of his college, of which he was after-wards successively See also:bursar, See also:dean and See also:tutor . During his connexion with Oxford he was, inter alia, a public examiner in classics and mathematics, See also:Drummond See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy (1842), and regius professor of See also:civil See also:law (1855) . After he had forfeited his fellowship by See also:marriage, he was elected to an honorary fellowship of University College . He published while at Oxford an See also:epitome of See also:Niebuhr's See also:History of See also:Rome, an annotated edition of See also:Livy and other See also:works, but his studies mainly See also:lay in the direction of political economy, law, chiefly See also:international law, and international politics . In 1840 he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and became an See also:advocate at Doctors' See also:Commons . In the ecclesiastical courts he enjoyed a large practice, and filled many of the appointments incidental thereto, such as See also:commissary-See also:general of the See also:city and See also:diocese of Canter-See also:bury (1849), See also:vicar-general to the See also:archbishop (1852) and See also:chancellor of the diocese of London (1858) . He was professor of international law at See also:King's College, London (1852-1855) . In 1858, when the See also:Probate and See also:Divorce Acts of 1857 came into force, and the ecclesiastical See also:jurisdiction of Doctors' Commons had passed away, Twiss, like many other leading See also:advocates of Doctors' Commons, became a Q.C., and in the same See also:year he was also elected a bencher of his Inn . His successful career continued in the civil courts, and in addition to his large practice he was appointed in 1862 advocate-general to the See also:admiralty, and in 1867 See also:queen's advocate-general . In 1867 he was also knighted .

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great number of royal commissions, such as the See also:Maynooth See also:commission in 1854, and others dealing with marriage law, See also:neutrality, See also:naturalization and See also:allegiance . His reputation abroad led to his being invited by the king of the Belgians in 1884 to draw up the constitution of the See also:Congo See also:Free See also:State . In 1871 Twiss became involved in an unpleasant See also:scandal, occasioned by allegations against the ante-nuptial conduct of his wife, whom he had married in 1862; and he threw up all his appointments and lived in retirement in London until his See also:death on the 14th of See also:January 1897, devoting himself to the study of international law and kindred topics . Among his more notable publications of this See also:period were The Law of Nations in See also:Peace and The Law of Nations in See also:War, two works by which his reputation as a jurist will chiefly endure .

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