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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Administrator in British India}}<br />
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| name = Sir Henry Joseph Twynam<br />
| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CIE}}<br />
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| office = [[List of governors of the Central Provinces and Berar|Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar]]<br />
| term_start = 17 September 1940<br />
| term_end = 16 September 1946<br />
| monarch = [[George VI]]<br />
| governor-general = [[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow|The Marquess of Linlithgow]]<br>[[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|The Viscount Wavell]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Francis Verner Wylie|Sir Francis Verner Wylie]]<br />
| successor = [[Frederick Chalmers Bourne|Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|04|24|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Stafford]], [[Staffordshire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|10|21|1887|04|24|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[New Forest]], [[Hampshire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]<br />
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Muriel Hearson|1915}}<ref>{{Cite web |title= Henry Twynam, 1887 - 1966 |url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/henry_twynam |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=www.myheritage.com}}</ref><br />
| children = {{Bulleted list|Pamela Mary Somerville Twynam ({{Abbr|b|born}}1915 – {{Abbr|d|died}}1971)|Humphrey Reginald Woodriff Twynam ({{Abbr|b|born}}1917 – {{Abbr|d|died}}1940)|<br />
Penelope Hearson Twynam ({{Abbr|b|born}}1924 – {{Abbr|d|died}}2005)}}<br />
| mother = Mary Sophia Piggott<br />
| father = Charles Henry Twynam<br />
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'''Sir Henry Joseph Twynam''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CIE|sep=,|size=100}} (24 April 1887 – 21 October 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Joseph Twynam 1887-1966 - Ancestry® |url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/henry-joseph-twynam-24-9g2qmd |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=www.ancestry.com |language=en-US}}</ref> was a British administrator in India. He was [[List of governors of the Central Provinces and Berar|Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar]] from 1940 to 1946.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Twynam, Sir Henry Joseph, (24 April 1887–21 Oct. 1966), late ICS |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-49882 |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO | year=2007 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49882}}</ref><br />
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Twynam joined the Indian Civil Service in 1909.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Tywnam was appointed a CIE in 1934, CSI in 1937, and KCSI in 1940.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br />
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