E. G. Swain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

E. G. Swain

British historian

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1861

Place of Birth: Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Jan-1938

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Edmund Gill Swain (1861 – 29 January 1938) was an English cleric and author.
As a chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, he was a colleague and contemporary of the scholar and author M.
R.
James, and a regular member of the select group to whom James delivered his famous annual Christmas Eve reading of a ghost story composed specially for the occasion.
Swain collaborated with James on topical skits for amateur performance in Cambridge, but he is known best for the collection of ghost stories he published in 1912, entitled The Stoneground Ghost Tales.
He also wrote a history of Peterborough Cathedral.