Family
In 1957, Swan married Lady Hilda Susan Mary Northcote (born 23 July 1937 — died 4 December 1995), Serving Sister Most Venerable Order of St. John, Dame of Honour and Devotion Sovereign Military Order of Malta; Dame of Justice (SMO) of Constantine St. George; and President, St. John's Ambulance Society Suffolk.
Lady Hilda was the younger daughter of Henry Stafford Northcote, the 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh, and granddaughter of author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. She died in Boxford, Suffolk, when she was hit by a car, which did not stop. She was 58 years old.
They had five children:
- Mary Elizabeth Magdalen Swan (b. 1959)
- Hilda Juliana Mary Swan (b. 1961)
- Catherine Sylveria Mary Swan (b. 1962)
- Andrew Conrad Henry Joseph Swan (b. 1964)
- Anastasia Cecilia Mary Swan (b. 1966)
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