| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Swinfen | |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status1: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label1: | Hereditary peerage |
| Term Start1: | 19 March 1977 |
| Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
| Predecessor1: | The 2nd Baron Swinfen |
| Successor1: | Seat abolished |
| Term Label2: | Elected hereditary peerage |
| Term Start2: | 11 November 1999 |
| Term End2: | 5 June 2022 |
| 1Blankname2: | Election |
| 1Namedata2: | 1999 |
| Predecessor2: | Seat established |
| Successor2: | The 6th Baron Wrottesley |
| Party: | Conservative Party |
| Birth Date: | 14 December 1938 |
Roger Mynors Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron Swinfen, (14 December 1938 – 5 June 2022) was a British politician and philanthropist, who was one of the ninety two hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords following the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. He sat as a Conservative.[1]
Swinfen was born in 1938, the elder son of Charles Swinfen Eady, second Baron Swinfen and his novelist wife Mary Wesley.[2] His parents divorced in 1945. He was educated at Westminster School and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, after which he received a Short Service Commission in The Royal Scots before leaving the British Army in the rank of Lieutenant.[3]
A philanthropist, he was the Founding Trustee of the Swinfen Charitable Trust[4] and was Director of the American Telemedicine Association from 2009 until 2013.
Swinfen was President of the South East Region British Sports Association for the Disabled and between 1983 and 1997, he served as a Member of the Direct Mail Services Standards Board. In 1988, he became Patron of the Disablement Income Group, in 1996, Patron of Labrador Rescue South East,[5] in 2002, Patron of World Orthopaedic Concern,[6] and of the Kunde Foundation[7] in 2007.
Swinfen was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers as well as a Freeman of the City of London.
Swinfen became the third Baron Swinfen on the death of his father in 1977. As a member of the House of Lords, he was a member on various UK Parliamentary Committees.[1]
Swinfen married Patricia Anne Blackmore on 24 October 1962. They had four children:[8]
Lady Swinfen died in 2023.[9]
Swinfen died on 5 June 2022, at the age of 83. He was succeeded in the barony by his only son, Charles.[10]
| Crest: | A Demi-lion rampant Vert charged on the body with a Battle-axe erect and holding a like Axe in bend Argent |
| Helm: | That of a Peer |
| Escutcheon: | Per pale Argent and Vert on a Chevron between three Battle-axes as many Ermine Spots all Counterchanged |
| Supporters: | Dexter, a Lion guardant Vert charged with a Battle-axe Argent; Sinister, a Lion guardant Argent charged with a Battle-axe Vert |
| Motto: | Per ardua ad alta (en: Onwards and upwards through hardship) |
| Orders: | MBE insignia suspended below the Shield |