William Proctor Swaby

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(184416 November 1916) was a colonial Anglican bishop from 1893 until 1916. Born in

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, Swaby was educated at Durham University, where he won the Barry Scholarship. He eventually gained a doctorate in

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He held incumbencies at Castletown, Sunderland and at

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before being ordained to the

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in 1893 as

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 March 1893, by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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. In Guyana he encouraged the development of a

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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

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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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Swaby, Proctor 1844 births People from Tetney, Lincolnshire Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican bishops of Guyana Anglican bishops of Barbados Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society 1916 deaths 19th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean