John Darby (Dean of Chester)

John Lionel Darby (20 November 1831 – 5 November 1919) was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th ^[1]

Born in County Kilkenny, Ireland into an ecclesiastical family as the youngest son of Christopher Darby, sometime Rector of Kells, County Kilkenny ^[2] on 20 November 1831, he was educated at St Columba’s College^[3] and Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1857. He began his career with curacies at Winwick and Mells. He was the Incumbent of Newburgh, Lancashire from 1859 to 1868. Later he was Diocesan Inspector for the Diocese of Chester and Rector of St Bridget’s, Chester.^[4] He was Archdeacon of Chester from 1877 until 1886 and his elevation to the Deanery^[5]

He died on 5 November 1919.

Notes

↑ British History On-line
↑ “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ thePeerage.com
↑ Genuki
↑ The Times Friday, Apr 30, 1886; pg. 10; Issue 31747; col FNew Dean of Chester

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Saul Howson	Dean of Chester 1886 – 1919	Succeeded by Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett

Deans of Chester

Early modern	Thomas Clerk Henry Man William Clyff Richard Walker John Piers Richard Langworth Robert Dorset Thomas Mawdesley John Nutter William Barlow Henry Parry Thomas Mallory William Nichols Henry Bridgeman James Arderne Laurence Fogg Walter Offley Thomas Allen Thomas Brooke William Smith George Cotton

Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley Robert Hodgson Peter Vaughan Edward Copleston Henry Phillpotts George Davys Frederick Anson John Howson John Darby Frank Bennett Norman Tubbs Michael Gibbs George Addleshaw Ingram Cleasby Stephen Smalley Gordon McPhate

Diocese of Chester

Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester

Office holders	Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester Keith Sinclair, Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead Libby Lane, Bishop suffragan of Stockport AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley Gordon McPhate, Dean of Chester Michael Gilbertson, Archdeacon of Chester Ian Bishop, Archdeacon of Macclesfield

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