Person:Thomas Swinburne (1)

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Thomas Swinburne
d.Aft 1666
m. Abt 1595
  1. Thomas Swinburne1597 - Aft 1666
m. Abt 1630
  1. Nicholas SwinbourneAbt 1640 -
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Name Thomas Swinburne
Gender Male
Birth? 1597 Barmston, Durham, England
Marriage Abt 1630 to Hieronyma Chaytor
Death? Aft 1666

Thomas Swinburne of Barmston, co. Pal., Esq. Living at Butterby, co. Pal. age 69 in 1666 (Surtees 'History of Durham' p. 279)

Author of famous "Swinburne Letters" on the defence of Rome, till recently in the British Museum. His cousin was the famous "Recusant" John Swinburne. "Declined to join the Protestant Party and turned his sons out of doors because they did so." This is the Warwickshire tradition.