10 Facts About Edmund Swetenham

Edmund Swetenham was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

Edmund Swetenham studied at Macclesfield Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1848.

Edmund Swetenham was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1848 and chose to work in the North Wales region of the Wales and Chester Circuit.

Edmund Swetenham became one of the most prominent barristers in the region, defending or prosecuting in many of the most famous cases of his time, including defending railway employees charged with manslaughter after the Abergele Railway disaster in 1869.

Edmund Swetenham defended the Dolgellau man Cadwaladr Jones in 1877, who stood accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Edmund Swetenham was promoted to Queen's Counsel in 1880.

At the 1885 General Election, Edmund Swetenham stood in the Caernarfon Boroughs constituency for the Conservatives, losing by 65 votes.

Edmund Swetenham stood again in the 1886 General Election, being elected by a majority of 136 votes against Liberal MP Sir Love Jones-Parry, who was incumbent.

Edmund Swetenham was twice married, first in 1851 to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Wilson Jones.

Edmund Swetenham married Gertrude, daughter of Ellis Cunliffe of Acton Park, Wrexham.