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William Elgin Swinton
William Elgin Swinton (September 30, 1900 in Kirkcaldy – June 12, 1994 in Toronto), was a Scottish paleontologist.
==Life==
William Swinton was born as the son of William Wilson Swinton jr, a clerk, and Rachel Cargill; he had one sibling, his younger sister Mary.〔(Swinton genealogy chart at the Swinton family website, www.swintonfamilysociety.org )〕 He received his secondary education in Dundee and Glenalmond. From 1917 onwards, he studied at the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1922. In 1920, he partook in an expedition to Spitsbergen. Between 1922 and 1924, he was an assistant at the geology department of the British Museum (Natural History) in London. Subsequently, Swinton was appointed as a curator of fossil amphibians, reptiles and birds. In 1933, he received his Ph.D from the University of Glasgow.
He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1937, and served during the entire Second World War with Navy intelligence, eventually reaching the rank of Lieutenant commander. In the late 1950s he joined an expedition to climb Mount Everest, but he failed to reach the summit. He received the Darwin Medal from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1959. Two years later, he emigrated to Canada to take up a post in Toronto.
He died in that city in 1994, 93 years old. Swinton remained unmarried and had no children.
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