Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831 – 15 July 1914) was a
British
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Baronet
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and
Liberal
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politician.
Life
The third son of Edward Swinburne and his wife Anna Antonia Sutton, a granddaughter of
Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet MP (31 July 1733 – 10 January 1802), of Norwood Park in Nottinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1796.
Family background and education
Sutton was the younger son o ...
, he succeeded his grandfather
Sir John Edward Swinburne, 6th Baronet in 1860.
Swinburne was
High Sheriff of Northumberland
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in 1866 and the
Member of Parliament for
Lichfield
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,
Staffordshire
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, between 1885 and 1892. In the
1895 general election he stood as the parliamentary candidate for the
Liberal Party
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in
Newbury, but was not elected.
His daughter, Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne, married General
.
See also
*
Swinburne Baronets
References
The Swinburn Family of Capheaton in Northumberlandat 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
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