An haife shi a Bordeaux. Iyalin Swinburne na Capheaton Hall sun kasance a al'ada Roman Katolika da Jacobite, amma yana da shekaru 25 Swinburne ya gaji baronetcy kuma ya shiga siyasa a matsayin Whig na Furotesta. . Ya zama Memba na Majalisar [Launceston (Mazabar Majalisar Burtaniya) | Launceston]] a cikin 1788.[1] Akwai guraben aiki a wurin, saboda dan majalisar da ke zaune George Rose ya karbi ofishi a karkashin Crown, kuma dole ne ya sauka; [2] Swinburne daga 1786 ya yi niyyar tsayawa takarar Northumberland, amma Hugh Percy, Duke na 2nd na Northumberland ya gudanar da zabensa na mazabar Cornwall. [3] Bai wuce majalisa ba, amma ya kasance shugaban siyasa a Northumberland, kuma abokin tarayya Charles Gray wanda aka zaba a mazabar a 1786.[4]
Swinburne ya kammala aikin a gaban arewa na Capheaton Hall wanda mahaifinsa ya tsara. William Newton ne ya yi shi.[5][6]
Ya auri Emma, diyar Richard Henry Alexander Bennet na Babraham, Cambridgeshire, akan 13 Yuli 1787; ta kasance 'yar'uwar Frances Julia (née Burrell, 'yar Peter Burrell), mata ta biyu na Duke na 2nd na Northumberland. 'Ya'yansu sune:
Edward (1788-1819), wanda ya auri Anne Nassau Sutton;
↑"First Annual Report of the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle upont Tyne (being for the year 1813)". Archaeologia Aeliana. 1st Series (1): 800–806. 1822.