{{Short description|Anglican Bishop of Jamaica (1905-1974)}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''John Cyril Emerson Swaby''' {{post-nominals|CBE}} (11 December 1905 – 21 April 1974) 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<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> and ordained in 1929.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anglicandiocese.dthost.com/history.dti |title=Diocesan History |access-date=2009-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419220522/http://anglicandiocese.dthost.com/history.dti |archive-date=2009-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and served until his death on 21 April 1974.
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