Dick Darby

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Memorial in Southwell Minster

Script error: No such module "Portal".Harold Richard Darby (28 February 1919[1] – 27 December 1993) was the Bishop of Sherwood — a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwell — from 1975 until 1988.

He was educated at Durham University, ordained in 1951 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Leyton and Harlow.[2] Following these he was Vicar of Shrub End Colchester[3] and then Waltham Abbey before being appointed Dean of Battle (the vicar of Battle is called the Dean) in 1970, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate on 24 June 1975 by Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, at York Minster.[4] An honorary doctor of the University of Nottingham,[5] he retired in December 1988[6] and died on Boxing Day 1993.

References

  1. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007. Template:ISBN
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 Template:ISBN
  3. Church history
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Church of England titles
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Bishop of Sherwood
1975–1988 Template:S-ttl/check
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