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Thomas James Twisleton

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Thomas James Twisleton

Birth
Death
15 Aug 1824 (aged 53)
Hambantota District, Southern, Sri Lanka
Burial
Colombo, Colombo District, Western, Sri Lanka Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Age 52, son of the Right Hon. Thomas Twisleton, eleventh Lord Saye and Sele, First Archbishop of Colombo. He died at Hambantotte and "his remains were interred at Tangalle on the 17th instant" and this memorial "erected by his affectionate wife and children."

Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G. [Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George]: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 11.

Tangalle is in Hambantota District.

See also T. J. Twistlestone
Age 52, son of the Right Hon. Thomas Twisleton, eleventh Lord Saye and Sele, First Archbishop of Colombo. He died at Hambantotte and "his remains were interred at Tangalle on the 17th instant" and this memorial "erected by his affectionate wife and children."

Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G. [Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George]: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 11.

Tangalle is in Hambantota District.

See also T. J. Twistlestone

Inscription

Sacred to the memory of the Honorable and Venerable Thomas James Twisleton, D.D., First Archdeacon of Colombo, who died universally lamented at Hambantotte on the 15th August, 1824. Aged 52. He was second son of the Right Hon. Thomas, eleventh Lord Saye and Sele.



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