Proctor Swaby

Proctor Swaby
Bishop of Barbados
and the Windward Islands
Diocese
In office1899–1916 (d.)
PredecessorHerbert Bree
SuccessorAlfred Berkeley
Other post(s)Bishop of Guyana (1893–1899)
Orders
Consecration1893
by Edward White Benson (Canterbury)
Personal details
Born1844 (1844)
Tetney, Lincolnshire, UK
Died16 November 1916(1916-11-16) (aged 71–72)
DenominationAnglican
Occupationbishop
Alma materDurham University

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

  1. ^ Deaths The Times Tuesday, 21 November 1916; pg. 1; Issue 41330; col A
  2. ^ St George’s Cathedral website Archived 16 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Tetney Church Community Project Archived 14 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Swaby, Rt Rev. William Proctor, (1844–16 Nov. 1916). UK Who's Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U203555. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Durham University Calendar 1897". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  6. ^ The Times, Thursday, 11 February 1875; pg. 7; Issue 28236; col G Ecclesiastical Appointments
  7. ^ Land of six peoples
  8. ^ University of Alberta
  9. ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 1575. 30 March 1893. p. 347. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. ^ a b c Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/42195. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42195. Retrieved 10 January 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ "Obituary. The Bishop of Barbados". Church Times. No. 2809. 24 November 1916. p. 458. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  12. ^ "Church news. Personal". Church Times. No. 1924. 8 December 1899. p. 678. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Bishop of Guyana
1893–1899 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Barbados
and the Windward Islands
1899–1916 		Succeeded by