Notes on Some Members of the Swinburne Family

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LhDP SWINB-, mother of S i r E h d Swinbme of Capheaton. I n Edmund Cossets Gray we read that i n 1753 "it had been propose-d.s that on the return journey he (the poet) Bhould v ia i t Mason at Hul l , but %he i l lness of %hat gentlemanvs father prevented tbis scheme, and the friends met a t York instead. G ~ G travelled sou%harda for two days with 'a Iady Swinbm!ne, a Roman Catholic, not young, Chat has been much abroad, seen a good deal, hew a great many people, very chatty and communicative, so that I passed my time very well8@. Gosse adds: ' 1 regret that the now l iving and i l lus t r ious descendarat of this amusing lady i s unable t o t e l l me anything definite of hsr historg." (2 ed. 1889. p.113. ) The poet Sminburne took l i t t l e interest i n the Catholic history of his family. Gray vs companion on his journey South was probably Lady Swinb&ne (de1761), the mother of Sir Edward Swinburne of Caphaton,