Charles Swain

Charles Swain (4 January 1801 – 22 September 1874) was an English poet and engraver, born in Manchester. He was honorary professor of poetry at the Manchester Royal Institution, and in 1856 was granted a civil list pension. His friends included Robert Southey. Swain's epitaph for John Horsefield is noted by English Heritage as an element of their rationale for listing Horsefield's tomb as a Grade II monument.

Charles Swain was born to an English father and French mother in Every Street, Manchester, England, on 4 January 1801, (Various early sources, including Swain himself, state that he was born in 1803 but this is contradicted by later studies.)

Swain died on 22 September 1874 as the result of an epileptic seizure. He had been living at Prestwich Park, Prestwich, at the time, in a house bought for him by friends. His wife died four years later. Selections (1906) (posthumous)