Neil Swan.
Neil Swan, Born 1953
CHILDHOOD IN BURMA & INDIA
This is an account of the parents and early childhood of Neil Swan. He was born in Burma, a country to which his parents had come by different routes. His father, Norman Swan, was a Scot who had grown up in Peterhead, a fishing village in the north-east of Scotland where his grandfather, Douglas, an Irishman from the north and a minister in the Church of Scotland, had charge of a parish for over fifty years. After graduating from Cambridge University, Norman joined the Burmah Oil company in Rangoon. His mother Nancie, whose father worked for Burma Railways, was born in Mandalay. Both returned to Burma after the Second World War, and were married in Rangoon in 1948. Neil Swan, their third child, was born in 1953. Soon after his birth they were moved by Burmah Oil to Assam, in northern India. In the autumn of 1958 the family returned to Scotland, and set up home in Edinburgh.
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