# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/travers-twiss
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:38:15.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/travers-twiss"
name: "Travers Twiss"
slug: "travers-twiss"
description: "Sir Travers Twiss QC FRS was an English jurist. He had a distinguished academic and legal career culminating in his appointment as Queen's Advocate-General. Twiss was particularly noted for his contribution to the theory of international law. He was widely consulted, and was asked to draw up the constitution of the Congo Free State. A prolific author, Twiss wrote many influential textbooks on legal matters."
tagline: "British legal scholar (1809-1897)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Twiss_Libel_Case_(Illustrated_Police_News%2C_1872).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1809-03-19"
deathDate: "1897-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             0.0546448087431694
  historical:           7.006624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تراڤيرس تويس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump