Cyril Twitchett

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]