Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet
Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet (6 March 1762 – 26 September 1860) was an English politician and patron of the arts.
Life[edit]
He was born at Bordeaux. The Swinburne family of Capheaton Hall was traditionally Roman Catholic 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.[1] There was a vacancy there, because the sitting MP George Rose had accepted an office under the Crown, and had to step down;[2] Swinburne from 1786 had intended to stand for Northumberland, but Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland managed his selection for the Cornwall constituency.[3] 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.[4]
Swinburne completed the work on the north front of Capheaton Hall envisaged by his father. It was carried out by William Newton.[5][6]
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne.[7][8]
Patron[edit]
He was a patron to William Mulready: they shared an enthusiasm for boxing. Mulready taught the Swinburne family and painted their portraits.[9] 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".[10]
Family[edit]
He married Emma, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, 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[11] (1797–1877), Royal Navy officer; he married Jane Henrietta, daughter of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, and they had six children, of whom the second was the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.[12]
- Elizabeth (1790–1790);
- Julia (1795–);
- Emily Elizabeth (1798– ), who married Henry George Ward in 1824;
- Frances (1799–1821);
- Elizabeth (1805–1896), married John William Bowden in 1828.[13][14]
He died, aged 98, in December 1860.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ Philip Henderson, Swinburne: the portrait of a poet (1976), p. 6; Google Books.
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Launceston, 1754-1790.
- ^ Roland G. Thorne, The House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986), p. 303; Google Books.
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Percy, Hugh, Earl Percy (1785-1847).
- ^ Capheaton Hall site, History.
- ^ Images of England page.
- ^ Philosophical Transactions Part 2 (1833), Royal Society of London, p. 48; Google Books.
- ^ "First Annual Report of the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle upont Tyne (being for the year 1813)". Archaeologia Aeliana. 1st Series (1): 800–806. 1822.
- ^ Pointon, Marcia. "Mulready, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19520. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ John Hodgson, A History of Northumberland, in three parts, Part 2, Volume 1 (1827), p. 234; Google Books.
- ^ For more on Charles Henry see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
- ^ Rooksby, Rikky. "Swinburne, Algernon Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36389. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ John Debrett, Debrett's Baronetage of England (1835) p. 95; archive.org.
- ^ 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; archive.org.
- ^ Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 1893.
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