Cyril Twitchett

Cyril Frederick Twitchett (1890-3 September 1950) was an Anglican archdeacon^[1] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King^[2] in the second quarter of the Twentieth century.^[3]

Twitchett was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1913.^[4] He served curacies at St Benet Fink, Tottenham; St Hilda's Thurnscoe and St Paul's Sheffield. From 1920 to 1924 he was clerical secretary of the Life and Liberty Movement, then a bishop’s messenger at Liverpool Cathedral from 1925 to 1931 when he became a residentiary canon of the cathedral.^[5]

He was Archdeacon of Warrington from 1933 to 1934; and then Archdeacon of Liverpool until his death in Liverpool on 3 September 1950.^[6]

Notes

1. The London Gazette
2. "Chaplains To The King", The Times (London, England), 26 July 1939, p. 8.
3. National Archives
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
5. "Twichett, Ven. Cyril Frederick", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 June 2015
6. "The Archdeacon Of Liverpool", The Times (London, England), 5 September 1950, p. 8.