Born in India, Calcutta.1,2,3

From :-
The Asiatic Journal :-
The Friend of India :-
"At Calcutta, the lady of Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of a son."

Baptised in India, Calcutta, St John's.3

From the Parish Register Transcriptions :-
"1838 / October / 23rd / Robert / 1st September 1836 at Calcutta / Son of Robert Swinhoe Attorney at Law and of Caroline his wife / At St John's Cathedral / Henry Fisher, Senior Presidy Chaplain"

Research Note :-
Baptised the same day as his younger brother Charles Swinhoe

Occupation Scholar London University.4

Recorded in census in Saint Pancras, Grays Inn Road (Hunter Street, 20).4

Sarah Biddle - Head - Widow - 57 - Captain's widow - born Gibraltar
Jno Matthew Biddle, son - 18 - Medical student Middlesex Hospital - born Bristol
Thos. James Biddle - son - 17 - Medical student Westminster Hospital - born Bristol
Eliza Anne Biddle - daughter - 14- born Chelsea
Robert Swinhoe - Grand-son - 14 - Scholar London University - born Calcutta
Staff x 2

Married Christina Lockie STRONACH in China, Amoy.20

From the Morning Chronicle :-
"On the 27th October, at the British Consulate, Amoy, China, Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of H.M.'s Consular service, to Christina Lockie, eldest daughter of the Rev. A. Stronach."

Birth of daughter Minnie Eliza SWINHOE in China.10,11

Birth of daughter Ethel Christabel SWINHOE in Chelsea.10,12,13

Birth of son Robert Alfred SWINHOE in Taiwan.14,15

Birth of daughter Florence May SWINHOE in China, Amoy.16

Birth of daughter Constance Sarah SWINHOE in Chelsea.17,18,19

Died in Chelsea (Carlyle Square, 33).6,7,8,9

From John Bull :-
"Oct. 28, at 33, Carlyle-square, S.W., Robert Swinhoe, F.R.S., F.R.Z.S., F.R.G.S., late Her Majesty's Counsel, Ningpo, China, aged 41."

Probate in London, Principal Registry.9

Of Robert Swinhoe of 33 Carlyle Square Chelsea, and of Her Majesty's Consular Service.
Executor - Christina Lockie Swinhoe, the widow the relic
Effects - under £3,000

ODNB.5

For more information see his entry in the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography :-
Clemency Thorne Fisher,
"Swinhoe, Robert (1836-1877)",
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press, Sept 2004;
online edn. May 2007
http://www.oxford dnb.com/view/article/38460