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John Swynfen (MP Tamworth, Staffs.)

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  • - language hat on Fri 11 Nov 2005, 01:50am. Flag this

    From the L&M Companion:
    ‘The Great Swynfen’ was John (1613-94), a leading Presbyterian M.P. who sat in most parliaments 1640-94 and was M.P. for Tamworth during the diary period… The other Swynfen mentioned was his son Richard (b. 1634), an Oxford graduate, admitted to Gray’s Inn 1660 and shortly afterwards made secretary… to Manchester, the Lord Chamberlain.

  • - Pauline on Fri 11 Nov 2005, 03:15am. Flag this

    also from L&M Companion
    His grandson Samuel Swynfen was a godfather of Dr. Johnson.

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