Social Victorians/People/Swaine

Also Known As

 * Family name: Swaine
 * Colonel Charles Edward Swaine

Organizations

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

Timeline
1879, Col. Charles Edward Swaine served in Zulu War.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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. The printing on the portrait says, "Colonel Swaine as an Officer of the XI Light Dragoons, A.D.1742."

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Residences

 * 14 Queens Gate, Kensington (1901 census)
 * 18 Onslow Square, London SW (1911 census)

Family

 * Colonel Charles Edward Swaine (20 September 1844 — 2 May 1928)

Questions and Notes

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