TWOPENY, RICHARD ERNEST NOWELL (1857-1915) was a son of Archdeacon Twopeny and was born at Little Casterton, Rutlandshire. Educated in France and at Marlborough College and Heidelberg University, he came to Australia in 1876 and engaged in journalism. He was secretary to the editor of the South Australian Register and then to the South Australian commissioners for the Paris, Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions. From 1881, in association with Jules Joubert (q.v.), he planned the Adelaide, Perth and Christchurch exhibitions as private ventures. Twopeny was managing director of the Christchurch Telegraph, and editor of the Otago Daily Times (1883-90). He was executive commissioner for the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition in 1889-90. With A. W. Pearse he founded the Australian Pastoralists' Review (1891), which he edited. Twopeny died on 1 Sep 1915.

Otago Daily Times, 21 Dec 1888, 25 Nov 1915

Reference: Volume 2, page 208

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