Thom's Irish Who's Who/Swayne, Colonel Charles Henry

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3397011Thom's Irish Who's Who — Swayne, Colonel Charles Henry


SWAYNE, Colonel Charles Henry. D.S.O. (1898); Col. late R.A.M.C. Educ.: private school; Ledwich School of Medicine, Dublin (prizeman in Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery); appointed Staff Assist.-Surg., 1872; Surgeon, 1873; Surg.-Maj., 1886; Surgeon, Lieut.-Col., 1894; Brigade Surgeon Lieut.-Col., 1897; Lieut.-Col., Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898; Col., 1902; retired Sept., 1905; served with distinction during the yellow fever in Trinidad, W.I., 1881; in the Nile campaign, 1884-85, thanked for services; Burmese campaign, 1886-1889 (specially reported for services); in charge No. 6 B.F.H., and senior Medical Officer, 1st Brigade, Tirah Expeditionary Force, N.W.P., 1897-08; second son of late A.C. Swayne, M.D., J.P., of Carrick on-Shannon, and Anne, dau. of D. Browne: b. 1848; m. 1896, Margaret Blakeney, dau. of late David Gillies, of Londonderry, and has issue two daus. Recns.: golfing, fishing. Res.: 7 Palmerston Park, Dublin.