Ernest William Brockton Swanton

Ernest William Brockton Swanton (28 June 1870, Dibden – 21 October 1958, Twickenham) was an English mycologist, botanist, conchologist, naturalist, antiquarian, and museum curator. He was the president of the British Mycological Society for the academic year 1915–1916 and the president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1921.

Biography After an early career as a schoolmaster and private tutor, Swanton was appointed in 1897 the curator of the Haslemere Educational Museum. He wrote several books. His 1909 book Fungi and How to Know Them was a useful and popular handbook and had a 2nd edition in 1922. He edited, with the aid of P. Woods, C.B., the book Bygone Haslemere: A Short History of the Ancient Borough and Its Immediate Neighbourhood from Its Earliest Times (1914, West, Newman & Co.).

On the 27th of September 1916 he gave the British Mycological Society's presidential address, entitled Education in Mycology. In 1920 he was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society of London. He was appointed M.B.E. in 1936 and O.B.E. in 1948. He was granted a Civil List pension in 1949. abstract

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