SWAN, Lt­Comdr Sir Kenneth Raydon.                                                                                        /back

Awards: Kt 1949; OBE 1919; QC 1936; RNVR.

Personal details: Born Lowfell, Gateshead­on­Tyne, 13 March 1877; 3rd son of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, FRS; married 1919, Emily Louisa, only daughter of Edward Robert Tatchell; (one daughter decd).

Education: Rugby School; Balliol College, Oxford. 2nd Hon. Mods, 2nd Hon. Law.

Work: Called to Bar, 1902; served European War in RNVR, 1914-1919, in HMS Cyclops and at Naval Barracks, Buncrana; Board of Education (O Branch), 1919-1920; resumed practice at Bar, 1920; Bencher, Middle Temple, 1943. Chairman: Board of Trade Patents Cttee, 1944; Dep. Chairman of Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1946; Chairman of Special Cttee Southern Province under Reorganization Areas Measure (1944), 1947; President of British Sailors' Soc., 1959 (Chairman, 1940-1959); President, Royal Skating Club, 1955.

Publications: Patents, Designs and Trade Marks; Memoir of Sir Joseph W.
Swan, FRS.

Recreations: Lawn tennis, golf, skating, ski­ing, music, chess.

Address: Cobwood, Woolton Hill, Newbury. Telephone: Highclere 436.

Clubs: Athenæum, Ski Club of Great Britain (Pres., 1911-1913).

Died 14 October 1973