# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-swain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:06:20.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-swain"
name: "Charles Swain"
slug: "charles-swain"
description: "Charles Swain was an English poet and engraver, born in Manchester. He was honorary professor of poetry at the Manchester Royal Institution, and in 1856 was granted a civil list pension. His friends included Robert Southey. Swain's epitaph for John Horsefield is noted by English Heritage as an element of their rationale for listing Horsefield's tomb as a Grade II monument."
tagline: "Poet (1801-1874)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Swain_by_William_Bradley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1801-01-04"
deathDate: "1874-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.740677333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز سواين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Swain_(poet)"
    title: "Charles Swain (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3_(%E8%A9%A9%E4%BA%BA)"
    title: "チャールズ・スウェイン (詩人)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Swain_(poet)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump