Priestley Swain
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Edgar Priestley Swain (11 April 1881 – 25 July 1949) was the fourth Bishop of Burnley from 1931 until 1950.[1]
Biography
Born in Stoke Newington, London,[2] he was the son of banker Harry Edwin Swain and Elizabeth Milsted.[3] He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was successively Curate of Holy Trinity with All Souls, Birchfield,[4] Chaplain to the Bishop of Birmingham, Vicar of Putney and Rural Dean of Barnes before ascending to the Episcopate. A man "whose great gifts marked him out for preferment," his scholarship was considered a great asset to the Church in the mid-20th century.[5][6]
He died in Burnley while in office in 1949.[6]
References
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- ↑ Details of Funeral service
- ↑ 1911 England Census
- ↑ London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917
- ↑ Who was Who 1897–2007. London, A & C Black, 2007 Template:ISBN
- ↑ India and the Church: being impressions of some members of the Mission of Help. Swain, EP (Ed):London, SPCK, 1923
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