Proctor Swaby
Proctor Swaby | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands | |
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| Diocese | |
| In office | 1899–1916 (d.) |
| Predecessor | Herbert Bree |
| Successor | Alfred Berkeley |
| Other post | Bishop of Guyana (1893–1899) |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1893 by Edward White Benson (Canterbury) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1844 Tetney, Lincolnshire, UK |
| Died | 16 November 1916 (aged 71–72) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Occupation | bishop |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
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William Proctor Swaby FRGS (1844 – 16 November 1916)[1] was a colonial Anglican bishop from 1893[2] until 1916.
Born in Tetney,[3] Swaby was educated at Durham University, where he won the Barry Scholarship.[4] He eventually gained a doctorate in Divinity[5] He held incumbencies at Castletown, Sunderland[6] and at Milfield before being ordained to the episcopate in 1893[7] as Bishop of Guyana.[8] He was consecrated a bishop on 24 March 1893, by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[9]
In Guyana he encouraged the development of a Third Order of Saint Francis within the Anglican church based on the work by Emily Marshall. She was his sister-in-law and she had been an assistant from when he was in Sunderland.[10] Swaby's archdeacon Fortunato Pietro Luigi Josa published St. Francis of Assisi and the Third Order in the Anglo-Catholic Church in 1898 in England quoting text from the order's founder but without naming her. The idea grew[10] and when Swaby was Translated to Barbados and the Windward Islands in December 1899[11]/1900 then the new order quickly took hold.[10]
Swaby held the two separate Sees of Barbados and of the Windward Islands together.[12] He died in post in 1916.
Swaby was a Fellow of the Colonial Institute and the Royal Microscopical Society.[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Deaths The Times Tuesday, 21 November 1916; pg. 1; Issue 41330; col A
- ^ St George’s Cathedral website Archived 16 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tetney Church Community Project Archived 14 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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