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Richard Twining (tea merchant)
Richard Twining (1749–1824) was an English merchant, a director of the East India Company, and the head of Twinings the tea merchants in the Strand, London.
==Life==
He was one of three sons of Daniel Twining; his mother was Mary Little, Daniel's second wife. He was born at Devereux Court in 1749, and educated at Eton College. He entered the Twinings tea business at the age of sixteen, and succeeded to the overall management in 1771 (joined eleven years later by his brother John), and participated in the major development of the tea trade caused by the operation of Commutation Act in 1784–6, during the drafting of which William Pitt the Younger repeatedly consulted him.
In 1793 Twining was elected a director of the East India Company. He had published three papers of ''Remarks'' on the tea trade of the company, and one of his first acts was to carry a self-denying motion prohibiting directors from trading with India; he took a prominent part in the affairs of the court until his resignation in 1816 in consequence of poor health.
Twining was a traveller, and his tours on the continent and in England formed the subject of journals and letters to his half-brother Thomas, extracts from which were published by his grandson Richard Twining in 1887, as ''Selections from Papers of the Twining Family''. He died on 23 April 1824.
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