Twiss, Sir Travers, jurist and economist, born in Westminster; professor of Political Economy at Oxford, and subsequently of Civil Law; drew up in 1884 a constitution for the Congo Free State; his writings include “View of the Progress of Political Economy since the Sixteenth Century,” “International Law,” “The Law of Nations,” all of which rank as standard and authoritative works (1809‒1897).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Twickenham * Twist, Oliver