Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet
British politician
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| Intro | British politician | |
| A.K.A. | John Swinburne | |
| A.K.A. | John Swinburne | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| is | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Death | 15 July 1914 |
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Biography
Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831 – 15 July 1914) was a British Baronet and Liberal politician.
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.
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.