The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-08

THE LATE SIR TRAVERS TWISS.
The son OF clergyman, the Rev.
Robert Twiss of Trevallyn, Denbigh-
shire, Travers Twiss was born at West
minister on March 10, 1909. AT the age
OF seventeen he went to University col
lege, Oxford which had been adorned
In earlier days by the brothers Scott,
afterwards Lord Eldon and Lord Sto-
well, and in 1880 appeared in the first
class in mathematics and the second
class in classics. He was soon after
wards elected fellow and appointed tu-
tor OF university, and continued to re-
side in college for many years. UNI
versity and college duties accumulated.
In 1885 and the two following years he
was public examiner in classics, and in
1855 SO and 1910 in mathematics-the
only or almost the only instance of the
same mans examining in both schools.
Having become a Fellow of the Royal
society in 1885, he succeeded, in 1872,
Herman Merivale as Drummond pro-
fessor of political economy, an office
which he held for the usual five years,
being followed by Nassau Senior, who
had been the first professor on the
foundation. The fruits of his labors
appeared in the volume entitled "A
View of the Progress of Political Econ
omy in Europe Since the Sixteenth
Century" which appeared in 1Sl7.
He had already, in 1886, begun the Sc
ries of literary productions on CUES
lions of International law, of which he
subsequently became SO prolific an ex-
ponent, and published an essay ON the
Oregon question which at one time
seemed likely to embroil this country
in war with the United States, but was,
happily, adjusted by a delimitation of
British and American territory pracli-
cally by the 49th parallel Of latitude.
In 1S4S he published treatise on the
relation of the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein to the crown of Denmark
and the German federation. Two or
three years later the country was excl
| ted by the establishment of Romar
Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain
and DR.. Twiss espoused the cause.
| which had been taken up by Lord John
| RUSSELL in little treatise entitled
Letters Apostolic Of Plus TX. consid-
cred with reference to the law of Eng
land and the law of Europe" Discuss
ing the subject entirely from the legal
and not from the religious standpoint,
he vigorously combated papal preten-
sions both at home and in the colonies,
But neither law nor political economy
exhausted the activity of the Oxford
| professor Eagerly adopting Niebuhr' s
| views on early Roman history, he had
| published in 1887 an epitome of that
! great historians works, which he fol-
| lowed up with an edition of Livy with
Latin notes. In 1852 he was appointed
| to the professorship of international
law at Kings college, London, which
he resigned after three years tenure, to
succeed Dr. Joseph Phillimore in the
regius professorship of civil law at OK
ford, which he held for fifteen years.
and in which he was succeeded by Mr..
James Bryce.
/ In August, 1867, on the promotion Of
Sir r. Phillimore, Twiss became
since abolished, which had for many
years been held by Sir ]. D. Harding,
and, though parliamentary, for
merly held precedence over those of the
Attorney and Solicitor General. In the
! November of the same year DR.. Twiss
obtained the honors of knighthood
Few have served on so many royal
commissions and other public inquiries
as Sir Travers Twiss. In 1852 he sat on
the commission which inquired into the
regulations Of the College Of Maynooth;
in 1857 on that which investigated the
laws of neutrality; in 1868 on the Natu-
ralization and Allegiance Commission
which resulted in the two statutes
passed In 1S70 and in 1869 he served or
yet another which dealt with the law OF
marriage in Great Britain and ireland
and in the British colonies, and a still
further commission of which he was q
member was that on the Rubrics. HI
was also one of the arbital commission
ers to settle the boundary lines be-
tween the provinces of New Brunswick
and Canada. The reputation of Sill
Travers Twiss as a jurist was Euro
pean; and in 1884, at the request of the
King of the Belgians, he drew up {
constitution for the Free State of Thu
Congo, and in the following year, at the
desire of Lord Granville, then at the
Foreign Office. he acted as legal advi
ser to the British embassy during thu
West African conference at Berlin.