Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet (6 March 1762 – 26 September 1860) was an English politician and patron of the arts. John Edward Swinburne

Life

He was born at

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. The Swinburne family of

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was traditionally

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and Jacobite, but at age 25 Swinburne inherited the baronetcy and went into politics as a Protestant Whig. He became Member of Parliament for Launceston in 1788. There was a vacancy there, because the sitting MP George Rose had accepted an office under the Crown, and had to step down; Swinburne from 1786 had intended to stand for

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, but

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managed his selection for the Cornwall constituency. He went no further in Parliament, but remained a political leader in Northumberland, and an associate of Charles Grey who was elected for the constituency in 1786. Swinburne completed the work on the north front of Capheaton Hall envisaged by his father. It was carried out by William Newton. He was a

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, and the first president of the

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Patron

He was a patron to

William Mulready William Mulready (1 April 1786 – 7 July 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the P ...

: they shared an enthusiasm for boxing. Mulready taught the Swinburne family and painted their portraits. He also supported John Hodgson, who referred in his ''History of Northumberland'' to Swinburne as a "munificent contributor to the embellishments and materials of this work".

Family

He married Emma, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet of

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, on 13 July 1787; she was a niece of Frances Julia (née Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell), second wife of the 2nd Duke of Northumberland. Their children were: *Edward (1788–1819), who married Anne Nassau Sutton; *Charles Henry (1797–1877), Royal Navy officer; he married Jane Henrietta, daughter of

George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA (25 December 1760 – 27 October 1830) was a British peer. He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham and the former Elizabeth Crowley, being styled Viscount St Asaph from birth, ...

, and they had six children, of whom the second was the poet

Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as ''Poems and Ballads'', and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition ...

. *Elizabeth (1790–1790); *Julia (1795–); *Emily Elizabeth (1798– ), who married

Henry George Ward Sir Henry George Ward GCMG (27 February 17972 August 1860) was an English diplomat, politician, and colonial administrator. Early life He was the son of Robert Ward (who in 1828 changed his surname by sign manual to Plumer Ward) and his first ...

in 1824; *Frances (1799–1821); *Elizabeth (1805–1896), married

John William Bowden John William Bowden (21 February 1798 – 15 September 1844) was an English functionary and writer on church matters. He was a close friend of John Henry Newman, who described their relationship in his ''Apologia''. Life He was born in London, the ...

in 1828.William James Gordon-Gorman, ''Converts to Rome: a biographical list of the more notable converts to the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the last sixty years'' (1910), p. 28
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Swinburne, John Edward 1762 births 1860 deaths People from Bordeaux Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1784–1790 Baronets in the Baronetage of England Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London