17 Facts About Edward Twining

Edward Twining was a member of the Twining tea family.

Edward Twining was a Provost scholar to Lancing before training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Edward Twining married Helen Mary, daughter of Arthur Edmund Du Buisson, in 1928 and they had two sons.

Edward Twining served in Dublin with the Worcestershire Regiment between 1919 and 1922, inadvertently capturing Eamon de Valera in 1921.

Edward Twining was appointed MBE for his services in Ireland.

Edward Twining then entered the colonial administrative service following two tours of Uganda with the 4th King's African Rifles, returning there in 1929 as an assistant district commissioner.

Edward Twining moved to Mauritius as director of labour in 1939, and on his own initiative launched a secret operation to monitor enemy signals.

At first Edward Twining's operation focused on traffic in European languages, but once Britain had declared war on Japan following the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Malaya in December 1941, he and his team began working on Japanese signals.

Edward Twining's operation was extraordinarily successful but it remained secret until long after the end of the war and he omitted any mention of it from his draft autobiography.

Edward Twining served as Governor of North Borneo from 2 December 1946.

Lord Edward Twining made his maiden speech on 27 July 1959 during the debate on the Colonial Development Corporation.

Edward Twining warned that the Westminster model should not be imposed upon Africa, rather that the local leaders should be allowed to draft their own party political arrangements to articulate independence movements.

Edward Twining was among those peers who asked the Commonwealth Office to donate more money to alleviate the world refugee crisis.

Edward Twining was among those peers who opposed the second reading of the Misrepresentation Bill, a flagship piece of fraud legislation for the Wilson Government.

Edward Twining was appointed a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1950.

Edward Twining served as Honorary Colonel to 6th Battalion King's African Rifles from 1955 to 1958.

Edward Twining worked to expand the operations of factories in Tanzania, including the cotton gin at Murutunguru on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania.