Oswald Swanzy, RIC officer tracked down to Lisburn and murdered by IRA in 1920

​Oswald Ross Swanzy was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan on July 15 1881. He was the son of James Swanzy, a Monaghan solicitor, and his wife, Elizabeth Coudy Ross. James Swanzy died in February 1907.