Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet
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Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831 – 15 July 1914) was a
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and
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politician.


Life

The third son of Edward Swinburne and his wife Anna Antonia Sutton, a granddaughter of
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, he succeeded his grandfather Sir John Edward Swinburne, 6th Baronet in 1860. Swinburne was
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in 1866 and the Member of Parliament for
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,
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, between 1885 and 1892. In the 1895 general election he stood as the parliamentary candidate for the
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in Newbury, but was not elected. His daughter, Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne, married General
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.


See also

* Swinburne Baronets


References


The Swinburn Family of Capheaton in Northumberland
at www.geocities.com


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* 1831 births 1914 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 High sheriffs of Northumberland {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub