Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet

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

Sir John Swinburne
Bt
Member of Parliament for Lichfield
In office
1885–1892
Preceded byTheophilus John Levett
Succeeded byLeonard Darwin
Personal details
Born1831
Died1914
Political partyLiberal

Life

The third son of Edward Swinburne and his wife Anna Antonia Sutton, a granddaughter of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet, he succeeded his grandfather Sir John Edward Swinburne, 6th Baronet in 1860.[1][2]

Swinburne was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1866 and the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, Staffordshire, between 1885 and 1892. In the 1895 general election he stood as the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Party in Newbury, but was not elected.

His daughter, Rahmeh Theodora Swinburne, married General Percy Radcliffe.[3]

Coat of arms of Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet
Crest
Out of a ducal coronet Or a demi-boar rampant Argent crined of the First, langued Gules.
Escutcheon
Per fess Gules and Argent three cinquefoils Counterchanged
Motto
Semel Et Semper (Once And Always) [4]

See also

References

Notes
  1. Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. pp. 1462–3.
  2. Burke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. p. 1461.
  3. "Gen. P. Radcliffe Dies in England". New York Times. 10 February 1934. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  4. Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 1893.


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