Proctor Swaby


William Proctor Swaby FRGS was a colonial Anglican bishop from 1893 until 1916.
Born in Tetney, Swaby was educated at Durham University, where he won the Barry Scholarship. He eventually earned a doctorate in Divinity He held incumbencies at Castletown, Sunderland and at Milfield before being ordained to the episcopate in 1892 as Bishop of Guyana. Translated to Barbados and the Windward Islands in 1900, he died in post.
Swaby was a Fellow of the Colonial Institute and the Royal Microscopical Society.