Twiss

Twiss, SIR TRAVERS, jurist, was born in 1809. He was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he became fellow and tutor. He was professor of political economy from 1842 to 1847, and of civil law from 1855 to 1870, at Oxford, abd held the chair of international law at King's College, London, from 1852 to 1855. In 1867, when he was knighted, he became Queen's Advocate-General. In 1884 he drew up the constitution of the Congo Free State. He also published valuable works dealing with international law, and Monumenta Juridica: The Black Book of the Admiralty (1871-76). He died in 1898.