Philip Twisleton

Philip Twisleton was the son of John Twislkton, of Drax and Barley, Yorkshire, and of Horsmans Place in Dartford, and Margaret, daughter of William Constable.[1]

Twisleton was a colonel of a horse (cavalry) regiment in the New Model Army,[2] and was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 1 February 1658 (the knighthood passed into oblivion at the Restoration in May 1660).[3][1]

Philip Twisleton married Ann, daughter of John Brograve (born 1597) of Hamells and Hannah, daughter of Sir Thomas Barnardiston.[4] They had two sons:

• John (died 1721), the eldest son and heir, who inherited Horsmans Place from his uncle John Twisleton, the elder brother of his father who had been honoured with a baronet by the Lord Protector. He died childless.[5]
• Thomas,who became a reverend and had at least one child, a daughter called Mary.[6]

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