Charles swain biography

Charles Swain

With credits to Alan Jennings on Facebook

Charles was born on the 4th January 1801 in Every Street, Manchester to John Swain and his wife Caroline, daughter of Dr.

Daniel Nünes de Tavarez. Charles was baptised at St Ann's in Manchester, and was educated at a school run by Unitarian minister William Johns - with whom the physicist John Dalton tutored and lodged. Johns and Dalton were friends and joint secretaries of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (founded in the Cross Street Chapel, Manchester).

Charles swain actor

[Although his grave stone records his birth year as 1803, the church registers records it as 1801]

Charles began work aged 15 as a clerk in a dyeworks, part owned by his uncle Charles Tavaré, an accomplished linguist.

In January 1827 he married Ann Glover and the couple went on to have five daughters and a son of whom four daughters survived in to adulthood.

[Upto 1813 his Uncl