Thomas Nowell Twopeny or Twopenny (6 February 1819 – 3 November 1869) was a priest of the

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who was

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in Australia. He was the eldest son of Thomas Nowell Twopenny of

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, Wiltshire. He was educated at

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and

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and was

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in 1844. He was Rector of

Little Casterton Little Casterton is a small village and civil parish in Rutland, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 census was 148, increasing to 218 at the 2011 census. It is about two miles (3 km) north of Stamford on a minor road t ...

, Rutland, from 1844 (succeeding his grandfather Rev. Richard Twopeny, rector 1781–1843), then in 1859 of

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, Oxfordshire, before going out to Australia with the

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mission in ca 1860. Twopeny married Mathilde Anaïse Louis (or Lewis) on 22 October 1851, at

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. His sons, born in Little Casterton, Edward Nowell Twopeny and Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny were prominent in Australia. A stained glass window by

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was erected in his memory in the chapel of

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in 1872.

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19th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Flinders People educated at Uppingham School Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford 1819 births 1869 deaths Clergy from Wiltshire People from Little Casterton {{Australia-reli-bio-stub