William Proctor Swaby FRGS (184416 November 1916)Deaths The Times Tuesday, 21 November 1916; pg. 1; Issue 41330; col A was a colonial Anglican bishop from 1893St George’s Cathedral website until 1916.
Born in Tetney,Tetney Church Community Project Swaby was educated at Durham University, where he won the Barry Scholarship. He eventually gained a doctorate in Divinity He held incumbencies at Castletown, SunderlandThe Times, Thursday, 11 February 1875; pg. 7; Issue 28236; col G Ecclesiastical Appointments and at Milfield before being ordained to the episcopate in 1893Land of six peoples as Bishop of Guyana.University of Alberta He was consecrated a bishop on 24 March 1893, by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
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. 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 and when Swaby was Translated to Barbados and the Windward Islands in December 1899/1900 then the new order quickly took hold.
Swaby held the two separate Sees of Barbados and of the Windward Islands together. He died in post in 1916.
Swaby was a Fellow of the Colonial Institute and the Royal Microscopical Society. References