Sir Duncan Swann, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Duncan Swann, 2nd Baronet (27 January 1879 – 10 March 1962) was a British barrister, journalist, author and Liberal politician.

Biography He was the eldest son of Charles Edward Schwann and Elizabeth Duncan. His grandfather was Mr J F Schwann, originally of Frankfurt, Germany.

Schwann was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1901. He began a career in journalism, serving on the staff of the Bolton Evening News and the Star and Evening News in London. In 1904 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. On the death of his father in 1929, he succeeded to his baronetcy, created in 1906.

He was the author of a number of works of fiction and humour including The Magic of the Hill : a Romance of Montmartre (1911), The Book of a Bachelor (1912), Molyneux of Mayfair (1912), A Villa in the South (1919), Swans Down (1922) and The Book of a Benedict (1923).