View source for Samuel Francis Swinden 1713/4-1764

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===[[name::Samuel]] [[name::Francis]] [[name::SWINDEN]] [[date of birth::1713;1714|1713/4]]-[[date of death::1764]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Tobias Swinden]] of [[location::Rochester]], [[occupation::clergyman]]. BA [[education::University College, Oxford 1730]], MA 1733. [[occupation::rector|Rector]] of [[location::Stifford, Essex]] 1754; he is also recorded as having kept a school at [[location::Greenwich]]. A portrait of General [[associates::James Wolfe]] drawn ca.1742 has a note on the back saying that it was made for Swinden, who was then Wolfe's tutor.

====Books====
Swinden used an engraved armorial bookplate, made sometime after 1733 (Franks 28661). The extent of his library is not known; his will directed that all his "manuscripts and papers of every sort except such as relate to matters of account" be burnt, but otherwise has no specific reference to books, which would have passed to trustees, on behalf of his family, with the rest of his goods and chattels.

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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D493385 Will of Francis Swinden, the National Archives PROB 11/900/327].
*[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/by-publication/kerslake/early-georgian-portraits-catalogue-wolfe Early Georgia Portraits Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery].
*Foster, J., ''Alumni Oxonienses'', Oxford, 1891.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J., ''Franks bequest. Catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed ... by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks'', London, 1903-4.
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