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.
Swain himself lived and worked in Cambridge until 1905. HE was vicar of Stanground from 1905 to 1916, followed by a seven-year ministry in the rural parish of Greenford, Middlesex, and ended his church career at Peterborough Cathedral he died in Peterborough on 29 January, 1938