Cyril Swaby

John Cyril Emerson Swaby CBE (11 December 1905 – 21 April 1975) was an Anglican Bishop of Jamaica in the 20th century.

He was born on 11 December 1905 and educated at Munro College, Jamaica and Durham University ^[1] and ordained in 1929.^[2] His first post was as a curate at Brown's Town after which he held incumbencies at St Cyprian’s Highgate and then St Matthew’s Kingston. From 1951 he was Archdeacon of South Middlesex and a decade later was promoted to be suffragan of Bishop of Kingston. After seven years he was promoted to be the diocesan bishop, the Bishop of Jamaica,^[3] and served until his death on 21 April 1975.

References

1. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
3. Diocesan History