Sir Daniel Harold Ryan Twomey (1864 – 28 September 1935) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and judge in Burma.
[1][2] He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1882, and was appointed a deputy commissioner in Burma in 1890.
In 1911, he heard the Irish-born monk Dhammaloka's appeal against his conviction for seditious speech.
Twomey retired from government service in 1920 and lived in Totnes, England.
Their daughter Phyllis Margaret Twomey (1900–1933) married Gilbert Tew, an ICS officer posted to Burma and was the mother of the leading anthropologist Dame Mary Douglas.