Edgar Priestley Swain (1881–1949) was the fourth Bishop of Burnley from 1931 until 1950.[1] Educated at St John's College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon , he was successively Curate of Holy Trinity with All Souls, Birchfield,[2] 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",[3] his scholarship was a great asset to the Church in the mid Twentieth century.[4]
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| Preceded by Henry Henn |
Bishop of Burnley 1931 – 1949 |
Succeeded by Charles Keith Kipling Prosser |
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