The shop is still standing, and a tenth generation Twinning is still in the tea business.
And it appears he may face a number of obstacles before the twinning process is completed.
One of Northern Ireland's most picturesque areas is considering twinning with war-torn Gaza City.
The plan, Patton said, is to drill 15 holes in the pit, twinning holes already dug.
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They will also consider 'twinning', i.e. bringing together successful models of groundwater governance for future collaborations.
Despite Britain's wanderlust, it has had some success: Poland is now Britain's fourth most popular twinning partner.
"The Moyle-Gaza twinning group has committed itself to have Moyle council incur no costs to the ratepayer, " he said.
Three hundred years ago, Thomas Twinning opened the first tea shop in London.
But they still insisted on twinning tax cuts with budget cuts, so voters and markets would never be betrayed.
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The twinning policy has already been approved by the party in Scotland in the run-up to elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Proposals he would like to see implemented as part of a "twinning agreement" include a Moyle peace park in Gaza City.
Diana Drayton, the head of the Sandown twinning committee, says most of them disappeared to London and were never seen again.
Independent councillor Padraig McShane put forward the motion for a twinning committee which was passed at a Moyle Council meeting on Monday.
Twinning, the commission believes, is a valuable tool for promoting European integration.
Like that other dethroned strongman, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, he used his podium, twinning his own plight with that of his nation's perceived humiliation.
Indeed, of the UK's approximately 2, 000 formal twinning arrangements, 50% are with France and 23% are with Germany, according to the Local Government Association.
The Ffestiniog Railway Company said the twinning was a "huge boost".
Pupils have also been working hard on the twinning agreement, with a presentation on Madagascar for the ambassador and a special performance from the school choir.
Now officials from India are visiting the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways - which cover a combined 25 miles - as part of a formal twinning.
The recent twinning of Rwanda with South Kivu, presented by the rebel authorities as a sign of mutual understanding and co-operation, has only made matters worse.
Twinning unequal outcomes with equality of opportunity produces sustainable world class community and economic outcomes that are the foundation for the next generation of economic and social success.
The European Commission takes twinning seriously and funds new projects.
At a council meeting this week, it agreed to the establishment of a twinning committee which would look at linking up with one of the most troubled areas of the world.
Wales Labour Party General Secretary Anita Gale urged the party to "pull together and support the conference decision on twinning", but at least one disgruntled party is threatening to challenge the vote in the courts.
Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.
Specifically the UNESCO Chair is involved in developing twinning and other co-operative linking arrangements between the University of Bath and universities in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as developing sub-regional and regional cooperation networks based at the participating institutions.
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