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WE regret to announce the death, in his eighty-sixth year, of Sir Joseph Swan, at War-lingham, Surrey, on May 27. Swan came from a -stock exceptionally endowed with inventive abilities on both the paternal and maternal sides, his father and his maternal uncle, Robert Cameron, having both been inventors of note. He was born at Sunderland on October 31, 1828, and there he received his education. He was removed from school at an early age, and having shown a decided taste for chemistry, was apprenticed by his father in the chemical business of Mawson, of Newcastle; of this firm Swan subsequently became a partner, the firm's name being changed to that of Mawson and Swan. At the commencement of his career Swan turned his attention more particularly to the manufacture of photographic supplies, and it is owing to his enterprise that the business of his firm was largely extended in this direction.
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O'M, W. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, F.R.S. . Nature 93, 355–356 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093355a0
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