1566 Charles Schwann

Constituency  : Hyde  1906-10

Charles  took  Hyde  from  the  Tories.

Charles  was  the  son  of  the  MP  for  Manchester  North  of  the  same  name. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford. He  qualified  as  a  barrister  but  became  a  journalist, first  on  the  Bolton  Evening  News , then  the  Star  and  Evening  News  in  London.

Charles's  only  substantial  contribution  to  Parliament  was  a  colourful  speech  decrying  the  actions  of  the  House  of  Lords  in  1907, "We  regard  it  as  the  peasants  of  Styria  regard  the  vampire, stealing  from  its  grave  to  feed  on  the  life  blood of  Liberal  Bills  for  a  short  space, and  then  to  return  from  its  unhallowed  feast  to  its  unknown  resting  place".

Charles  stood  down  in  January  1910  to  pursue  a  literary  career. He  produced  a  number  of  humorous  novels  which  are  largely  forgotten  now.

In  1913  Charles's  father  obtained  a  licence  to  change  the  family  name  to  the  more  anglicised  Swann.

Charles  succeeded  to  his  father's  baronetcy  in  1929.

He  died  in  1962  aged  63.