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Cyril Frederick Twitchett (1890 – 3 September 1950) was an Anglican archdeacon and an Honorary Chaplain to the King in the second quarter of the Twentieth century.

Twitchett was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1913. He served curacies at St Benet Fink, Tottenham; St Hilda's Thurnscoe and St Paul's Sheffield. From 1920 to 1924 he was clerical secretary of the Life and Liberty Movement, then a bishop's messenger at Liverpool Cathedral from 1925 to 1931 when he became a residentiary canon of the cathedral.

He was Archdeacon of Warrington from 1933 to 1934; and then Archdeacon of Liverpool until his death in Liverpool on 3 September 1950.

Notes

1. The London Gazette
2. "Chaplains To The King", The Times (London, England), 26 July 1939, p. 8.
3. National Archives
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947
5. "Twichett, Ven. Cyril Frederick", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 June 2015
6. "The Archdeacon Of Liverpool", The Times (London, England), 5 September 1950, p. 8.

• 1890 births
• People from Sudbury, Suffolk
• Alumni of King's College London
• Honorary chaplains to the King
• Archdeacons of Warrington
• Archdeacons of Liverpool
• 1950 deaths