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 by	Theophilus John Levett
Succeeded by	Leonard Darwin
Personal details
Born	1831
Died	1914
Political party	Liberal

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

• Swinburne Baronets

References

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