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7 unusual facts about Swanbourne


Garry Baverstock

Along with his wife Julia Hayes, he designed the eco-friendly Swanbourne Business Centre in Swanbourne.

Robert Bropho

During the 1930s Bropho, his parents and eleven siblings camped in a swamp at Swanbourne in the western suburbs of Perth.

Swanbourne

St Swithun's Church (Anglican), a Grade II* listed historic building, stands at the east end of the village, opposite Swanbourne House.

Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

Swanbourne, Western Australia

The census does not identify Swanbourne's largest employer, the Australian Army.

Scotch College, a major independent school for boys, is the suburb's largest employer after the Army.

Swanbourne was named for Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, the family seat of Sir Thomas Fremantle (later Baron Cottesloe), a prominent Tory politician, and his brother, Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, for whom the city of Fremantle was named.


Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

The Betsey Wynne public house and restaurant in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, was built in 2006 by the Fremantle Trust run by Thomas Henry Fremantle and his father John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe.


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