Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet (6 March 1762 – 26 September 1860) was an English politician and patron of the arts.

[4] Swinburne was a supporter of most reforms associated with the Whigs, including reapportioning Parliamentary representation and abolishing the slave trade.

In 1793 Swinburne learned of a British government effort to undermine France's economy with counterfeit currency, which he discovered included the involvement of the Duke of York, commander of the British army in Flanders; Brook Watson, a Bank of England director; and William Playfair, a Tory writer who Swinburne said was managing the effort.

Swinburne reported the activity to Grey, contributing to its disclosure in Parliament by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

[11] He also supported John Hodgson, who referred in his History of Northumberland to Swinburne as a "munificent contributor to the embellishments and materials of this work".