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352 SWINTON — SYDENHAM. SWINTON. See " Masham of Swinton, co. York," Barony (Luter), cr. 1891. SWORDS. See "Beaumont of Swords, co. Dublin," Viscountcy [I.] (Beaumont), cr. 1622 ; ex. 1702. See " Molesworth of Swonns, co. Dublin," Viscountcy (M(A<efr worth), cr. 1716. SWYNERTON. Barony by i. Sir Roger Swyserton, of Swynerton, co. Stafford, Writ. 8- . llu i ),. of Sir Thomas Swynkhton, of the same, by Matilda, da. of 1 1337 Sir l { " ,,ert HoLand ; served in the Scutch wars, 1310-35; Gov. of ' Stafford, 1818 ; sometime Constable of the Tower at London ; wis » noon Banneret before 13-8, and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD lddc SWYNERTON), by writ, 23 April {1337) 11 Ed. 111. but never after- wards, neither were any of his posterity. He m. Johanna, da. of Sir Robert Hastange, and <t. 1338, leaving issue, when the Baiomj (if indeed such writ created an hereditary one) became tloi maiit.if) SYDENHAM OF SYDENHAM AND OF TORONTO. Barony. ]. Thk Rt. Hos. Charles Edward I'oi i.im i -Thomson, I 1810 fonnerli/ Thomson, Guv. Ceu. of 11. M's provinces on tho continent of 1 North America, was cr. 19 Aug. IS 10, BARON SYDENHAM OK SYDENHAM, CO- Kent, AND OF TORONTO in Canada. He was 1841. im( | y st s n { John lii scoMHK 1'oii.ktt-Thomson, formerly Thomson.! 1 ') of Roehanipion, and of Waverley abbey, both in co. Surrey, Merchant of London (Austin Friars) by Charlotte, da. of John JACOB, M-D- of the City of Salisbury ; h. 19 Sep. 17i'i>, at Wiinbledon. or at U'averley abbey, both in co. Surrey ; was, when aged 16, resilient at St. Petersburg as the correspondent of his father's firm.f'O in which he remaiued till he took office under Government, in 1830; M P., in the Liberal interest, for Dover, 1826-30, and for Manchester, 1830 ; PC, Vice President of the Hoard of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, ISoO ; President of the Board of Trade, July to Nov. 1834 and 1836-39; Uov. Gen. of Canada, 1889-41, being raised to the peerage,!' 1 ) as above, 19 Aug. 18-10. but never taking his seat; in whose heirs the Barony uf Swillingtnn, if it can be deemed cr. by the writs of summons to Adam, her great-grandfather, may be presumed tu be vested." [Banks' liar. Angl. Com-.] (a) Courthope states that " his son [1] Sir Thomas S. left issue [2], Sir Robert S., whose only child was [3] Maud, m. 1st Humphrey Peshall, and 2dly, Sir John Savage, by both of whom she had issue and amongst her descendants this dignity is pruhnkly in abtynnce." Haute [Bur. Angl. Cone] says that "an old visitation of co. Chester states that [the abovenamed] Maud Ml. firfct William Ipstone, by whom she had issue, William, who d. s.p. ; Christian, aged six [1389—1400] 1 Hen. IV., and Alicia, aged three ; her second husband was Humphrey Peshall, and her third, Sir John Savage, of Clifton." ( b ) He, by royal lie, 22 July 1S1-4, took the name of " Buncombe and Poulett," in addition to his patronymic of Thomson, his father, Andrew Thomson, also of Roehampton, having m. Harriet, -'id da. and at length, sole heir of John Buncombe, of Gothurst, co. Somerset, and representative of her great-grandfather, Edward Poulett, of Gothurst, a sd. (°) Represented [18i>6] by "Thomson, Bonar and Co." ( d ) He is said to have selected the title of " Waverley," as being that of his birth place, but on that being objected to by Mr. Nicholson, the then owner, to have selected " Sydenham," as being the birth place of his brother. There is also a story (Henry Greville's "diary") of his wishing to be "Lord St. Lawrence," and of it having been squashed by the Prime Minister Melbourne, with the remark " I don t think we have done quite enough for that, eh ? Seipio Africauus, eh I "