Priestley Swain

Edgar Priestley Swain (1881–1949) was the fourth Bishop of Burnley from 1931 until 1950. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was successively Curate of Holy Trinity with All Souls, Birchfield, 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 Twentieth century.