Francis Twiss

(1759-1827)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Twiss, Francis (bap. 1759, d. 1827), concordance compiler LBT ID: FrTwiss1827	B/BAP: 1759-04-05 DIED: 1827-04-28
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Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he married the actress Frances Kemble, compiled a Shakespeare concordance, and opened a school for girls. He was the father of Horace Twiss.
REFERENCES TO Francis Twiss: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin, 25 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, 10 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 10 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 Ch. X. 1797