Captain Thomas Francis Swinford (9 May 1839 – 23 January 1915) was an English army officer and cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in 1874. Born at Minster-in-Thanet near Ramsgate in Kent, Swinford was a right-handed batsman.Thomas Swinford, CricInfo. Retrieved 8 October 2018.Carlaw, pp. 513–514. (Retrieved 21 December 2020.)
Educated at Blackheath Proprietary School,Capt. Thomas Francis Swinford, Obituaries in 1915, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1916. Retrieved 24 June 2014. Swinford played his first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club. His debut was against Derbyshire.Thomas Swinford, CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 October 2018. He was described in his Wisden obituary as a "good batsman and long-stop" who had made a half-century against Lancashire.
He served as a captain in the 98th Regiment. He died at Polegate near Eastbourne in Sussex in January 1915 aged 75.
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