Venn: Adm. pens, at Emmanuel, May 28, 1644. S. of George, of Maidstone, Kent. B. there. Migrated to Jesus. Matric. 1645-6; Scholar; B.A. 1647-8. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1649-50, by the visitors. Incorp. at Oxford, 1650. M.A. (Oxford) 1650. V. of Rickmansworth, Herts., 1650. V. of Gt Kemble, Bucks., 1661-2, ejected. Chaplain to Richard Hampden, in 1661. Took up his abode with the Hampden family at Gt Hampden. Afterwards retired to Maidstone; minister of a large congregation there. Author, Life of Thomas Wilson, etc. Died Nov. 10, 1673, aged 46. Buried at Maidstone. See also George Swinnow (1630-1) (Al. Oxon.; Calamy, i. 239; Lipscomb, ii. 348; D.N.B.)
See 'Calamy Revised', p. 473.