Henry Swann was a British Tory politician. He sat in the House of Commons for three periods between 1803 and 1824.

Swann was elected at a by-election in September 1803 as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the borough of Yarmouth

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 on the Isle of Wight

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However he resigned

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 his seat early in 1804, through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He returned to the Commons two years later, when he was elected at the 1806 general election

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 for the borough of Penryn

Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in Cornwall

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He was re-elected in 1807

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1812

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and 1818

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but his 1818 victory was declared void after an election petition

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 was lodged. The seat remained vacant until the 1820 general election

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, when he was returned again,
holding the seat until his death in 1824.

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