Connections to Swetenham-16 - by degrees of separation

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3c1 means third cousin, once removed, 6c3 sixth cousin, three times removed

6 Degrees

• William Raynor VC (1795-1860) survivor of the Powder Magazine at Delhi 1857 link His daughter Adelaide Louisa Raynor (1834-1915) married Edmund Swetenham (1835-1898) great-great uncle

7 Degrees

• Captain Robert Hugh Archer RN (1852-1930) He took part in the Arctic expedition of 1875-6 on the Discovery. He explored a fjord which has been named after him. link 2c2
• Henry Fielding (1707-1754) novelist and dramatist link direct ancestor 5x great-grandfather
• Thomas George Anson 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892) link 9c1
• Fanny Parks (1794-1875) Writer, travelled in India link 1c4 see section on Fanny in the Swetenham Family of Cloud End

8 Degrees

• James Hamilton KG 1st Duke of Abercorn (1811-1885) link 8c4
• Lt-Col Augustus Anson VC (abt.1835-1877) For conspicuous bravery at Bolundshahur on 28 Sep 1857 link 9c1
• Victor Campbell (1875-1956) Led northern party on Scott's last expedition to the South Pole link 3c1
• Claudia Parsons (1900-1998) automotive engineer, travel writer, first woman to circumnavigate the globe by car link 3c1

9 Degrees

• John Russell KG 6th Duke of Bedford (1766-1839) link 5c4
• Col. John Worthy Chaplin VC (1840-1920) First to plant the colours on the Taku fort, and was severely wounded 21 Aug 1860 link. His daughter Muriel Gladys (1884-1948) married Foster Swetenham (1876-1914) 2c2
• Jackie Fisher (1841-1920) Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord link
• Lord Lansdowne (1845-1927) Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Foreign Secretary link 7c2
• 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871-1934) known as "Sunny" link 8c1
• Sir Hedworth Meux (1856-1929) Admiral of the Fleet link 8c1
• Lord John Russell (1792-1878) Prime Minister 1846-1852, 1865-1866 link 6c3

10 Degrees

• Lord Aberdeen (1784-1860) Prime Minister 1852-1855 link 6c4
• Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) mathematician link 10c3
• Maj-Gen the Hon. George Wrottesley RE (1827-1909) genealogist link 7c2

11 Degrees

• Lord Byron (1788-1824) poet link 10c3
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister 1940-1945,1951-1955 link 9c
• Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995) Prime Minister 1963-1964 link 9c1
• William Feilding (abt.1587-1643) 1st Earl of Denbigh link direct ancestor 9x great grandfather
• Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) brother of KIng George VI link 16c1
• Francis Octavius Grenfell VC (1880-1915) link and his twin brother Riversdale Nonus Grenfell (1880-1914) both 9th Lancers 14c4
• Earl Grey (1764-1845) Prime Minister 1830–34 link 10c5
• Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) Prime Minister 1957-1963 link His wife Dorothy 9c
• Lord Minto (1845-1914) Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India link 16c2
• 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929) Prime Minister 1894-1895 link 9c2
• Henry John Innes-Ker KT MVO (1876-1932) 8th Duke of Roxburghe link 9c
• Alice Keppel (1868-1947) Mistress of King Edward VII link 10c3
• Spencer Perceval (bef.1762-1812) Prime Minister 1809-1812 assassinated in the Lobby of the House of Commons link 6c4
• Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) philosopher link 8c1
• Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) Prime Minister 1885-1886, 1886-1892, 1895-1902 link 7c4
• William Wilberforce (1759-1833) abolitionist of the slave trade link 11c4

12 degrees

• Alexander II (1818-1881) Tsar of Russia link 15c2
• H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) Prime Minister 1908-1916 link His daughter-in-law Cynthia Mary Evelyn Charteris (1887-1960) 9c1
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891) 1st Earl Lytton, Viceroy of India link
• Victor Bulwer-Lytton (1876-1947) 2nd Earl Lytton, Governor of Bombay link 8c3
• Lady Diana Cooper (1892-1986) society beauty and hostess link 8c1 wife of Duff Cooper
• Lord Cornwallis (1738-1805) Governor-General of Bengal link 6c5
• Jock Delves Broughton (1883-1942) 11th Bt. acquitted of the murder of Josslyn Hay (1901-1941) 22nd Earl of Erroll link 5c2
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002) consort of King George VI link 8c
• Ian Fleming (1908-1964) writer link His wife Ann Charteris 10c
• Duke of Grafton (1735-1811) Prime Minister 1768–1770 link 6c5
• George Grenville (1712-1770) Prime Minister 1763-1765 link 6c7
• Lord Grenville (1759-1834) Prime Minister 1806-1807 link 7c4
• Edward Grey (1862-1933) 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, longest-serving Foreign Secretary link 10c1
• Richard Howe (1726-1799) Admiral, commanded British fleet at the Glorious First of June link 6c5
• Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803) 1st Marquess of Stafford link 3c6
• Raine McCorquodale (1929-2016) Stepmother of Lady Diana Spencer link 19c1
• Hannah Mayer Rothschild (1815-1864) granddaughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild link Her husband Henry FitzRoy (1807-1859) 8c3
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939) daughter of Queen Victoria link 15c2
• Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805) Prime Minister 1782-1783 12c6
• Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997) Princess of Wales link 9c2
• George Villiers (1592-1628) 1st Duke of Buckingham, favourite of James I link 9th great great-uncle
• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) writer link 11c

13 degrees

• Lord Auckland (1784-1849) Governor-General of India link 8c5
• Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) Prime Minister 1902-1905 link 8c3
• Wigram Battye (abt.1842-1879) Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force, killed leading a cavalry charge link
• Jane Birkin singer link 9c1
  
• Robert Boyle (1627-1691) a founder of modern chemistry link 3c10
• John Buchan (1875-1940) author, Governor-General of Canada link his wife Susan Grosvenor 7c2
• James Butler KG (1610-1688) 1st Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland link 7c8
• George Canning (1770-1827) Prime Minister 1827 link 9c6
• Stratford Canning (1786-1880) Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, 1842–1858 link 9c6
• Charles II (1630-1685) King of Scotland, England and Ireland 1660-1685 link 8c9
• King Charles III reigning monarch link 8c2
• Duff Cooper (1890-1954) 1st Viscount Norwich, politician and diplomat link 11c husband of Lady Diana Cooper
• Lord Curzon (1859-1925) Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary link 11c4
• Charles Darwin FRS (1809-1882) author of "On the Origin of Species" link 9c5
• Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682) Lord Chancellor 1675-1682 link 1c10
• William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) Prime Minister 1868-1874,1880-1885,1886-1886,1892-1894 link 12c6
• Gen. Sir Hugh Gough VC GCB (1833-1909) VC in Indian Mutiny, Commander-in-Chief in India link 11c3 (see also brother Charles and nephew John, also VCs)
• Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) actress link 11c1
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President of the United States link
  
• Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) hostess and art patron link 8c3
• Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) Founding Father of the United States, wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution link
• Andrew Parker-Bowles first husband of Queen Camilla link 7c
• Robert Peel (1788-1850) Prime Minister 1834–1835, 1841–1846 link
• 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) Prime Minister 1783, 1807–1809 link 5c6
• Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) British military officer, explorer, and travel writer link
• Victoria (1819-1901) Queen, Empress of India link 14c3
• 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) general, Prime Minister 1828-1830, 1834-1834 link 8c5

14 degrees

• William Bligh RN (1754-1817) commanded HMS Bounty at the time of the Mutiny link
• Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Nobel Prize for Physics link
• Helena Bonham Carter actress link
• Queen Camilla consort of King Charles III link 11c1
• 7th Earl of Carnarvon Queen Elizabeth II's racing manager known as "Porchie" link 10c1
• Bamber Gascoigne (1935-2022) television quizmaster link 10c
• Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) Viceroy of india, First Sea Lord link 16c2
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Empéreur des Français link 18c7
• Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) potter link
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) author link 21c

15 degrees

• Charles Babbage FRS (1791-1871) mathematician link
• Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy link Her aunt’s husband Edward Lyulph Stanley PC (1839-1925) 9c2
• Edward de Vere (1550-1604) 17th Earl of Oxford link 5c12
• Walter Devereux KG (1539-1576) 1st Earl of Essex link 4c12
• Constance Georgine (Gore-Booth) Markievicz (1868-1927) Irish suffragette and revolutionary link 9c1
• Cary Grant (1904-1986) actor link
• Field Marshal Sir Hugh Gough (1779-1869) Commander-in-Chief in India 1843 - 1849 link 11c5 (see also nephews Charles and Hugh, both VCs)
• Brig. Gen. Sir John Gough VC KCB CMG (1871 - 1915) VC in Somaliland, killed in action in France link 12c2 (see also father Charles and uncle Hugh, also VCs)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935) archaeologist, Arabist, intelligence officer link 11c2
• C, S. Lewis (1898-1963) author link 12c1
• Jean de Luxembourg (1921-2019) Grand Duke of Luxembourg link 15c3
• George Orwell (1903-1950) author link 13c2
• Lord Rockingham (1730-1782) Prime Minister 1765-1766, 1782 link 4c7
• Scott of the Antarctic (1868-1912) English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. link His wife Katherine 9c2
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) poet link 12c2
• Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) writer and critic, founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians link 12c3
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) author link 14c3

16 Degrees

• Henry Addington (bef.1757-1844) Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804 link
• Sir William Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster Bt keen genealogist link 10c1
• Jane Austen (1775-1817) author link 10c6
• Gen. Sir Bindon Blood GCB GCVO (1842-1940) Chief Royal Engineer link
• Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Chancellor of the German Empire link
• Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) Explorer of Central Asia, Afghanistan, India. Killed at Kabul by a large mob link
• Richard Burton (1821-1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, and diplomat. link
• Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) On Terra Nova expedition with Scott and wrote The Worst Journey in the World link 13c2
• Fletcher Christian (bef.1764-1793) leader of the 'Mutiny on the Bounty' against Captain William Bligh link 5c5
• Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, Regicide link 6c14 Joyce Fleetwood (1559-abt.1619), ninth great grandmother of Richard, was the great-aunt of Cromwell’s son in-law Charles Fleetwood (abt.1618-1692)
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870) author link
• Sir Francis Drake (abt.1545-1596) sailor and navigator link 8c11
• Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves (1901-1941) French naval officer, martyr de la Résistance, mort pour la France link
• John Gielgud (1904-2000) actor link
• W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) dramatist, co-creator of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas link
• Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) German folklorist and lexicographer link
• William Harvey (1578-1657) Physician, discovered blood circulation link. His sister-in-law was Elizabeth Kynnersley, probably related to Swetenham-16.
• Henry VIII (1491-1547) King of England link 3c14
• Lord Kitchener (1850-1916) general link 15c3
• Louis XIV roi de France (1638-1715) le Roi Soleil link 8c10
• Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) admiral link 8c4
• David Niven (1910-1983) actor link
• Sir Walter Raleigh (abt.1554-1618) writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, explorer, tobacco importer link 5c13
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of the United States link 9c3
• Sir William Sackville (1570-1591) knighted by Henri IV of France link 4c11
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) poet, courtier, scholar and soldier link 5c12
• Elisabeth Wittelsbach von Österreich-Ungarn (1837-1898) Sisi, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary link 14c4

17 degrees

• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) author link 10c3
• Richard D'Oyly Carte (1844-1901) commissioned and produced the Gilbert & Sullivan operas link
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States link 11c4
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert (abt.1537-1583) adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier link 5c13
• Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591) privateer and explorer link 6c11
• Rainier (1923-2005) Prince of Monaco link 10c
• Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) Antarctic expeditions in Discovery (with Scott), Nimrod and Endurance, sailed 720 miles to South Georgia in an open boat link 10c2
• William the Silent, or William of Orange (1533-1584) Father of the Dutch Nation link 6c14

18 degrees

• Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) author link 9c2
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) author link 8c8
• George Washington (1732-1799) 1st President of the United States link 10c5

19 degrees

• Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) author link
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) author link

20 degrees

• Geoffrey Chaucer (abt.1343-abt.1400) author of the Canterbury Tales link brother-in-law of Katherine (Roet) Swynford (1350-1403) wife of John of Gaunt 17th great grandmother
• Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) composer, co-creator of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas link