Born in India, Calcutta.1,2,3,4,5

From the Asiatic Journal :-
"At Calcutta, the lady of Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of a son."

Research Note :-
The baptism record gives the date of birth as 27 August 1838, but the obituary in The Times states that it was 29th August 1836. His brother Robert Swinhoe was born in 1836 and they were both baptized on the same day in 1838.

Baptised in India, Calcutta, St John's.5

From the Parish Register Transcriptions :-
"1838 / October / 23rd / Charles / 27th Augt 1838 at Calcutta / Son of Robert Swinhoe Attorney at Law and Caroline his wife / At St John's Cathedral / Henry Fisher Senior Presidy Chaplain"

Research note :-
Baptised on the same day as his older brother Robert Swinhoe

Recorded in census in Hartley Wintney (Heath Common).6

Head of household - Richard Biddle
Annotated as "visitor"

Military.7

Joined up
56th Foot

Military.7

Lieutenant

Married Susan DAY in St Pancras Church.38,39,40

By licence
Groom - Charles Swinhoe, full age, bachelor, Lieutenant in the Army, of St Luke Chelsea
Bride, Susan Day, minor, spinster, of Mornington Road
Father of the groom - Robert Swinhoe, dead
Father of the bride - Henry Day, dead
Witnesses - ? Swinhoe & E. Day

From the Standard :-
"On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras Church, by the Rev. Thomas Prescott, Charles Swinhoe, Esq., her Majesty's 56th Regiment, to Susan Day, fourth daughter of the late Henry Day, Esq. of Mornington-road, Regent's Park.

Birth of son Charlton SWINHOE in India, Deesha.20,21

Birth of daughter Emily SWINHOE in India, Bombay

Death of daughter Emily SWINHOE in India, Bombay.22,23

Military.7

Captain

Birth of daughter Florence SWINHOE in India, Bombay, Deesa.20,24

Birth of son Ernest SWINHOE in India, Deesha

Birth of daughter Daughter SWINHOE in Pancras.26,27

Death of son Albert SWINHOE in Hampstead.28

Birth of son Albert SWINHOE in Hampstead.29,30

Military.8

Bombay Staff Corps

Birth of son Charles Deesa SWINHOE in India, Bombay, Deesa.20,31

Birth of daughter Susan Louisa SWINHOE in India, Bombay, Deesa.20,33,34

Military.9,7

Major
Bombay Staff Corps

Birth of daughter Patty Gertrude SWINHOE in India, Bombay.1,35

Military.7,4

Lieut. Colonel
Bombay Staff Corps

Death of daughter Susan Louisa SWINHOE in Islington.32

Military.7

Colonel

Military in India, Poona.7

Assistant Commissary General, 1st Class
33 years if military service

Occupation Colonel, Bombay Staff Corps.10

Recorded in census in Headington, St Clement.10

Head of Household
Staff x 2

Qualification in Oxford University.11

Honory M.A.

From the Times :-
The degree of M.A. Honoria Causam it is proposed will be conferred on Nov. 22, upon Colonel Swinhoe, Indian Staff Corps, F.L.S., F.Z.S.

Death of son Charlton SWINHOE in India, Calcutta.18,19

Occupation Colonel, Indian Staff Corps.1

Recorded in census in Headington, St Clement (Avenue House).1

Head of household
Staff x 2

Death of Susan DAY in Kensington.36,37

Witness at wedding in Kensington, St Matthew's.12

Of Patty Gertrude Swinhoe & Frederick John Arthur Carfield

Military.4

From the Indian Army Quarterly List :-
Colonel in receipt of Colonel's Allowances.
British Officers of the Indian Army

Death of son Ernest SWINHOE in Kensington.25

Obituary.17

From the Times :-
"COLONEL SWINHOE
A GREAT ENTOMOLOGIST
Colonel Charles Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., late of the Bombay Staff Corps, the distinguished authority on Indo-Malayan and other Asiatic lepidoptera, died at his residence, Avonmore-road, West Kensington, on Sunday, at the age of 86.
Born on August 29, 1836, he entered the Army as an ensign in the 56th Regiment in his 19th year, and was just too late in reaching the Crimea to see any fighting. He arrived in India shortly after the Mutiny and joined the Bombay Staff Corps. Though he kept mainly to the military side, he saw little war service apart from the second Afghan War, in which he was with Lord Roberts in Kandahar. His absorbing hobby was entomology, and in Bombay and Poona he reared many specimens. He was an indefatigable collector, and was visited by investigators from many countries, and notably by Americans. A count made in 1913 showed his collection (since augmented) of heterocera - Indo-Malayan, Australian, Chinese and Japanese - comprised 431 types and 540 co-types, nearly 7,000 species, and over 40,000 specimens. He was most methodical in upkeep. The collection is arranged in scientific order, every species being numbered and recorded in a ledger, with full references and localities, and there are also numerous genitalia. Colonel Swinhoe also collected a remarkable museum of diurnal lepidoptera. In collaboration with Mr. Moore he compiled the first five volumes of "Lepidoptera Indica", the remaining five volumes being his exclusive work. This monumental survey, issued at the price of GBP90, is illustrated by hundreds of coloured plates, and comprises every known butterfly from India, Burma, and Ceylon. Colonel Swinhoe also contributed extensively to the transactions and memoirs of the Entomological Society and other learned bodies. When he retired from the Indian Army some 30 years ago he made his home at Oxford, where the university conferred upon him the honorary M.A. degree. He was also an honorary member of the Entomological Society of Franc. He was well-known until far advanced in life as a lecturer on such subjects as the mimicry of lepidoptera. Coming later to London, he pursued his studies with unabated zest, and was a familiar figure at the Natural History Museum. As recently as last winter and spring he was busy contributing to the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History', "A Revision of the Genera of the Family Laparidae", covering no fewer than 1,130 detailed entries. It showed that a number of species had been wrongly referred to the family. His scientific work was brought to an end by a stroke last August, when he was entering his 87th year.
Colonel Swinhoe, who lost his wife some years ago, leaves two married daughters and a son, Mr. C. D. Swinhoe, a district engineer of the G.I.P. Railway. The funeral is at Kensal Green Cemetery this morning at 10.30."

Died in Fulham (Avonmore road, 35).13,14,15,16

From the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer :-
"Colonel Charles Swinhoe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S., a distinguished authority on Indo-Malayan and other Asiatic lepidoptera, died in London on Sunday.
Born in 1836, he entered the Amy in his 19th year, but saw little war service. Arriving in India shortly after the Mutiny, he joined the Bombay Staff Corps. As an entomologist he was an indefatigable collector, and a count made in 1914 revealed the fact that his collection comprised over 40,000 specimens. He contributed extensively to the transactions and memoirs of the Entomological Society and other learned bodies. On his retirement some 30 years ago the University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.A. He was also an honorary member of the Entomological Society of France. His chief work lay in his collaboration with Mr. Moore in the compilation of "Lepidoptera Indica," the last five volumes of which were exclusively his own work.
Co. Swinhoe leaves two married daughters and a son."

From the Times :-
"On the 2nd Dec., at 35, Avonmore-road, W.14. COLONEL CHARLES SWINHOE, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. (late Bombay Staff Corps), aged 86. (Indian papers please copy)"

Probate in London.14

Of 25 Avonemore Road, West Kensington
Executors :-
Thomas Henry Corfield, solicitor
Evelyn Ronald Broderick Graham solicitor
Effects = £766 17s. 1d.