Heneage TWYSDEN

NOTE: Martin P-L writes:Heneage, who was killed at Malplaquet and buried in WestminsterAbbey.JFT, c. 1930: Died at the siege of Mons and had amonument (notburied) in the Abbey.TFPL, July 2002: The monument can beseen to this day. It wasrestored in c. 1906 and is surmounted by plaques to his twobrothers and overall by the Twysden arms, all prominentlyin onebay of the North side of the nave, below the Parsons Window.The Wesminster Anney Guide, pub 1997, includes this:" ... memorials to the three sons of Sir William Twysden, 3rdBt, of Royden Hall, Kent. CaptainHeneage Twysden, seventh son,d. 1709, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Argyll, was killed atMalpaquet (called ont he monument by its other name -Blaregnies) in Hainault; Lieutenant John Twysden, RN, eighthson, d. 1707, was shipwrecked with Sir Clowdsley Shovell (q.v.);and Captain JosiahTwysden, ninth son, d. 1708, an officer ofSir Richard Temple's regimentof Foot, was killed at the siegeof Aigremont in Flanders. Among the Abbey muniments there is areference to Josiah's death in a letter, dated10 September1708, from Charles Battely, Receiver-General of the Abbey.Battley was concerned about his own nephew, Charles Knipe, anEnsign in Temple's Regiment; he had heard from someone who 'hada Letter from Ostend wch say's ye Regint. he served in suffer'dmuch at ye taking ye Counterscarp. yt. Capt. Twisden was Kill'dand Coll. Newton Kill'd or woundedwith several Subaltern's. MrTwisden was a good friend to poor CXharles& if Charges beLiving He has Lost his Two best freind's.' "Was he dsp?YesDoNB refers to his father William as the "grandfather of PhilipTwysden bishop of Raphoc (from 1747 until his death on 2 Nov1752) whose daughter Frances married in 1720 the fourth earl ofjersey and as 'Lady Jersey' is conspicuous in Walpole'sCorrespondence."The DoNB also refers tothe baronetcy as being in Burke'sExtinct Baronetcies.Lady Jersey is also mentioned in the Diaries of Mrs Philip LybbePowys as a cousin of her(Caroline's) father-in-law.<pre>

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