Edgar Priestley Swain (11 April 1881 – 25 July 1949) was the fourth Bishop of Burnley from 1931 until 1950.
[1] Born in Stoke Newington, London,[2] he was the son of banker Harry Edwin Swain and Elizabeth Milsted.
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.
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