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
^ The London Gazette
^ "Chaplains To The King", The Times (London, England), 26 July 1939, p. 8.
^ National Archives
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 Oxford, OUP ,1947
^ "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
^ "The Archdeacon Of Liverpool", The Times (London, England), 5 September 1950, p. 8.