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Also Known As

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  • Family name: Swaine
  • Colonel Charles Edward Swaine

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Organizations

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  • Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1867[1])[2]
  • Freemasons (at Cambridge): The Isaac Newton University Lodge (Initiation 10 March 1864)[3]
  • Lieutenant, 17th Lancers (1870)[2]
  • 11th Hussars (1880; Captain)[2]
  • Army and Navy Club[2]
  • Turf Club[2]

Timeline

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1879, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served in Zulu War.[2]

1881, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served in the Boer War.[2]

1882, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served as Aide-de-Campe in the Egyptian War.[2]

1884–5, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served in the Nile Expedition.[2]

1897, Col. Charles Edward Swaine was awarded a C.B.[2]

1897 July 2, Friday, Colonel Swaine attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1901, Charles Swaine is living at 14 Queens Gate, Kensington, with his 92-year-old widowed mother Jenanette A. Swaine, and 6 servants, 5 female and 1 male.[4]

1928 May 7, Col. Charles Edward Swaine's funeral.[1]

 
Charles Edward Swaine in costume as an officer of the XI Light Dragoons, A.D.1742. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

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At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Colonel Swaine (at 415) was dressed as an "officer 11th Dragoons, MS," wearing a "coat, regimental, with large lappel skirts, scarlet cloth, silver braiding, silver cord epaulette on left shoulder, silver cord aiguillette on right shoulder; breeches, scarlet and silver braid on seam; white silk jabot."[5]:p. 42, Col. 1b

Martin John Jacolette's portrait of "Charles Edward Swaine as an officer of the XI Light Dragoons, A.D. 1742" in costume is photogravure #55 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[6] The printing on the portrait says, "Colonel Swaine as an Officer of the XI Light Dragoons, A.D.1742."[7]

Demographics

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  • Nationality: British

Residences

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  • 14 Queens Gate, Kensington (1901 census)[4]
  • 18 Onslow Square, London SW (1911 census)[8]

Family

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  • Colonel Charles Edward Swaine (20 September 1844 — 2 May 1928)[9]

Questions and Notes

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  1. Charles Edward Swaine never married. A Mrs. Swaine and a Miss Swaine attended a social event reported on in the newspapers.

Works Cited on Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's Ball

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Colonel C. E. Swaine." Times, 4 May 1928, p. 21. The Times Digital Archive, link-gale-com.scsuproxy.mnpals.net/apps/doc/CS353181348/TTDA?u=stcloud_main&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=f9a7b17c. Accessed 6 June 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
  3. ↑ Library and Museum of Freemasonry; London, England; Freemasonry Membership Registers; Description: Register of Contributions: Country and Foreign Lodges, 1140-1230 (1832); 838-928 (1863). Ancestry.com. England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Class: RG13; Piece: 19; Folio: 57; Page: 52. Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  5. ↑ “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
  6. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  7. ↑ "Charles Edward Swaine as an officer of the XI Light Dragoons, A.D.1742." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158409/Charles-Edward-Swaine-as-an-officer-of-the-XI-Light-Dragoons-AD1742.
  8. ↑ The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  9. ↑ Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
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