John Darley (bishop)
John Richard Darley DD (1799 – 1884), a "man who laboured strenuously to awaken and sustain the practical interest of the clergy and laity",[1] was a 19th-century Irish Anglican Bishop.[2]
Born in County Monaghan and educated at the Royal School Dungannon and Trinity College, Dublin,[3] he was later Headmaster of his old school.[4] Ordained in 1826 he was the Rector of Drumgoon and Archdeacon of Ardagh before elevation to the Episcopate[5] as the 6th Bishop of the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. In 1859, Darley both built and financed the running of a school at Cootehill, Co. Cavan. Today, this school is known as the Darley National School.[6]
Notes[]
- ^ The Times, Tuesday, 22 January 1884; pg. 6; Issue 31036; col B Obituary John Richard Darley
- ^ "Darley , John Richard (1799–1884)'", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Blacker,B.H (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 0-19-861411-X
- ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p211: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Genealogical web site
- ^ IRELAND. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper(London, England), Sunday, 27 September 1874; Issue 1662
- ^ Jonathan A. Smyth, 'John Richard Darley (1799-1884), Bishop, Scholar & Philanthropist', Breifne, vol.xi, no.44. (2008)
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- 1799 births
- People from County Monaghan
- People educated at the Royal School Dungannon
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Archdeacons of Ardagh
- 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland
- Bishops of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
- 1884 deaths