Editing David Swift (actor) (section)

==Early life==
Swift was born in [[Liverpool]], the second of the four children of Abram Sampson Swift and Lily Rebecca (née Greenman), who owned a furniture shop in [[Bootle]].<ref name=obit /> His family was [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/31246/art-thou-contented-jew |title=Art Thou Contented, Jew? |first=Margaret |last=Drabble |access-date=30 July 2014 |date=20 April 2010 |journal=[[Tablet Mag]]}}</ref> He was educated at [[Clifton College]]<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Clifton College Annals and Register, 1860–1947 |first=J.A.O. |last=Muirhead |date=1948 |publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith |pages=520}}</ref> and [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], where he studied [[law]]. He then embarked on a career as a businessman with his father-in-law, J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to [[Marks & Spencer]].