Ernest William Brockton Swanton OBE (28 June 1870, Dibden – 21 October 1958, Twickenham) was an English mycologist, botanist, conchologist, naturalist, antiquarian, and museum curator.
[2] After an early career as a schoolmaster and private tutor, Swanton was appointed in 1897 the curator of the Haslemere Educational Museum.
[2] In 1898 Swanton began giving regular series of lessons in natural history to children from the local elementary schools.
He was known primarily as a field mycologist, although he had a wide range of interests in natural history and antiquarian studies.
He edited, with the aid of P. Woods, C.B., the book Bygone Haslemere: A Short History of the Ancient Borough and Its Immediate Neighbourhood from Its Earliest Times (1914, West, Newman & Co.).