Henry Schwann

{{short description|English cricketer, stockborker}}

{{distinguish|Henry Swan (disambiguation){{!}}Henry Swan}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Henry Sigismund Schwann

| birth_date = 19 November 1868

| birth_place = North Houghton, Hampshire,
England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|5|27|1868|11|19}}

| death_place = Meads, Sussex, England

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| batting = Right-handed

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| club1 = Oxford University

| year1 = 1890

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 6

| runs1 = 204

| bat avg1 = 18.54

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 70

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 17 April

| year = 2020

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20613.html Cricinfo

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Henry Sigismund Schwann (19 November 1868 – 27 May 1931) was an English first-class cricketer and stockbroker.

The son of Frederick Sigismund Schwann, he was born in November 1868 at North Houghton, Hampshire. He was educated at Clifton College,"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p88: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 where he played for the school cricket team and recorded a then record high score in an away match for the college of 209 not out against Sherborne School.{{cite book |title=Clifton College Annals and Register, 1860–1897 |first=E. M. |last=Oakeley |date=1897 |publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith |pages=249 |url=https://archive.org/details/cliftoncollegean00clifiala/page/152/mode/2up |language=en}} From Clifton he went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Oxford Men and Their Colleges |date=1893 |first=Joseph |last=Foster |publisher=James Parker & Co |pages=540 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Oxford_men_and_their_colleges.djvu/818 |language=en}} While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1890, making six appearances which included playing in The University Match against Cambridge at Lord's.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32616/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Schwann |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-04-17 |url-access=subscription}} He scored 204 runs in his six matches, at an average of 18.54 and a high score of 70.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32616/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Henry Schwann |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-04-17 |url-access=subscription}}

After graduating from Oxford, he became a stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange. In March 1917, he changed his name to Henry Bagehot Swann, presumably Anglicised from German to English due to anti-German sentiment in England at the time.{{London Gazette|issue=29986|date=16 March 1917|page=2667}} Schwann died in May 1931 at Meads, Sussex.