Donald Swann
Donald Ibrahm Swann was a Welsh composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders as one half of Flanders and Swann.
Donald Swann was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. His father, Herbert Alfredovich Swann, was a Russian doctor of English descent, from the expatriate community that started out as the Muscovy Company. His mother, Naguim Sultn Swann , was a TurkmenRussian nurse from Ashgabat, now part of Turkmenistan. They were refugees from the Russian Revolution. Swanns greatgrandfather, Alfred Trout Swan, a draper from Lincolnshire, emigrated to Russia in 1840 and married the daughter of the horologer to the Tsars. Sometime later the family acquired a second n to their surname. His uncle Alfred wrote the first biography of Alexander Scriabin in English.
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