Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,670 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Sydney Temple Swaby

From Graces Guide

Sydney Temple Swaby (1874-1951)

1874 Born in Ryhope, Durham, son of William Proctor Swaby

1911 A provision agent, boarding in Formby[1]

1912 Was a partner of Robert C. Fenwick in the company that built the Mersey monoplane which crashed at the Larkhill trials[2]

1914 An aeronautical engineer when he married Edith Oliver in Beeston, Leeds; his father was Bishop of Barbados and the West Indies.[3]

1939 Sydney T. Swaby, lecturer and public speaker (political), lived in Rotherham with Edith Swaby (b.1885), Hilda P. Swaby (b.1917), Robert W. Swaby (b.1922), John O. W. Swaby (b.1926)[4]

1951 Died in Rotherham

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Sources of Information

  1. 1911 census
  2. The Times Aug. 15, 1912
  3. Marriage record
  4. 1939 register