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William Proctor Swaby FRGS (1844 – 16 November 1916) 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 gained a doctorate in Divinity He held incumbencies at Castletown, Sunderland and at Milfield before being ordained to the episcopate in 1893 as Bishop of Guyana. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 March 1893, by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. Translated to Barbados and the Windward Islands in December 1899 — he held the two separate Sees of Barbados and of the Windward Islands together — died in post.