He was the eldest son of
Charles Edward Schwann and Elizabeth Duncan. His grandfather was Mr J F Schwann, originally of
Frankfurt,
Germany. Schwann was educated at
Eton College and
Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1901. He began a career in journalism, serving on the staff of the
Bolton Evening News and the
Star and
Evening News in London. In 1904 he was called to the bar at the
Inner Temple. On the death of his father in 1929, he succeeded to his
baronetcy, created in 1906. He was the author of a number of works of fiction and humour including
The Magic of the Hill : a Romance of Montmartre (1911),
The Book of a Bachelor (1912),
Molyneux of Mayfair (1912),
A Villa in the South (1919),
Swans Down (1922) and
The Book of a Benedict (1923). ==References==