Lawyer, poet, and biographer; he was MP for Wootton Basset (1820-30) and Newport (1830-31) and author of St Stephens Chapel: a Satirical Poem (1807).

REFERENCES TO Horace Twiss:

Lord Byron to Lord Holland, 10 September 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 25 October 1813 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 1 August 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 February 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Moore to John Murray, 25 October 1831 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Frances Arkwright to Francis Hodgson, [9 September 1841] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 29 May 1844 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)