Dr William Elgin Swinton FRSE FLS (30 September 1900 in Kirkcaldy – 12 June 1994 in Toronto), was a Scottish paleontologist.
His proposers were Douglas Alexander Allan, Robert Campbell, Herbert Harold Read and Thomas Matthew Finlay.
[3] These books were translated into many languages, making him influential in determining the public perception of dinosaurs in the middle of the twentieth century.
However, his ideas on dinosaur anatomy, ecology and systematics were already old-fashioned in the 1930s, while his evolutionary concepts were formed during the eclipse of Darwinism.
Swinton left the BMNH in 1961, to accept a post as professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, Canada.