18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Marjorie Dykes    
                Born: 10 Jan 1896          in Kent  1,2
             Resided: 1939 - 1948          at 12 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  3,1 (see note 1)
                Died: 1966                 in Cambridge  4 (see note 2)
              Father:
              Mother:
Other spouse 2
             Husband: Meredith Blake Robson Swann     
             Married: 1917                 in Kent  2 (see note 3)
                Born: 1893                 in County Durham  2 (see note 4)
              Census: 1901                 in Yorkshire   (see note 5)
              Census: 1911                 in Kent   (see note 6)
          Occupation: 1911                 Student  
          Occupation:                      Physician  
             Resided: 1926                 in Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Road, Trumpington  
                Died: 1926                 in Cambridge  4 (see note 7)
              Buried: 19 Feb 1926          in Trumpington   (see note 8)
              Father: Frederic Swann   (1860 - 1925) 
              Mother: Edith Mary Robson   (1859 -     ) 
           M Child 1: Michael Meredith Swann      
       Also known as: Baron Swann 5
                Born:  1 Mar 1920          in Kent  2,1 (see note 9)
             Resided: 1939                 at 12 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  1
          Occupation: 1939                 Student  1
          Occupation:                      Molecular and Cell Biologist  5
          Occupation: 1973 - 1980          Chairman of the BBC  5
                Died: 1990                 in Gloucestershire  4 (see note 10)
                Wife: Teresa A Gleadowe  
             Married: 1942                 in Hampshire  4 (see note 11)
           F Child 2: Vivien Priscilla Swann      
                Born: 30 Jun 1922          in Cambridgeshire  6,1 (see note 12)
             Resided: 1939                 at 12 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  1
             Husband: Graham Douglas Leonard  b. 1921  d. 2010  
             Married: 1943                 in Cambridge  2 (see note 13)

Sources:
(1) 1939 Register. 
(2) FreeBMD website. 
(3) Electoral Register. 
(4) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(5) Wikipedia. 
(6) GRO index. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Mar 1896 Bromley 2a 415
Note (2) Dec 1966 Cambridge 4a 261   age 70
Note (3) Sep 1917 Bromley 2a 1265
Note (4) Sep 1893 Sunderland 10a 647
Note (5) Age 7, born Sunderland, with family
Note (6) Age 17, born Sunderland, with family.  Student at College
Note (7) Mar 1926 Cambridge 3b 563   age 32
Note (8) Feb 19 SWANN Meredith Blake Robson of The Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington 32
Fellow of Gonville & Caius College died Feb 16
Note (9) Mar 1920 Bromley 2a 1359
Note (10) Sep 1990 Cirencester 22 1577   born 1 Mar 1920
Note (11) Sep 1942 Winchester 2c 367
Note (12) Sep 1922 Chesterton 3b 665   mothers surname Dykes
Note (13) Mar 1943 Cambridge 3b 910a

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