The Most Reverend

John Russell Darbyshire
Archbishop of Cape Town
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
DioceseCape Town
Elected1938
In office1938-1948
PredecessorFrancis Phelps
SuccessorGeoffrey Clayton
Orders
Ordination1905
Consecration30 April 1931
by Walter Robberds
Personal details
Born(1888-10-12)12 October 1888
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Died30 June 1948(1948-06-30) (aged 59)
London, England
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsEdward & Matilda Darbyshire
Previous post(s)Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1931-1938)
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge

John Russell Darbyshire (12 October 1880 – 30 June 1948) was an Anglican bishop.[1][2]

Life and ministry

He was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1880, the son of Edward and Matilda Darbyshire,[3] and educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[4] Ordained deacon in 1904 and priest in 1905,[5] his first post was as a Curate at St Andrew the Less, Cambridge[6] after which he was Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Later he was Vicar of St Luke, Liverpool then a Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral. From 1922 to 1931[7] he was Archdeacon of Sheffield, his last post before his ordaination to the episcopate as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway[8]- a post he held until 1938. In that year he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town.[9]

He was created a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1938.[10]

He visited England to attend the Lambeth Conference in 1948, and died in London on 30 June 1948.[11] He never married.

A set of iron gates were erected in his memory at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.[12]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ National Archives
  2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. ^ National Archives, 1901 England Census, reference RG 13/650
  4. ^ "Darbyshire, John Russell (DRBR899JR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  6. ^ Genuki
  7. ^ Honorary graduates of Sheffield University[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ List of the Bishops of Glasgow Archived 10 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Archbishop of Cape Town enthroned", The Times, 1 October 1938, p. 11.
  10. ^ London Gazette
  11. ^ "Obituary Archbishop Of Cape Town", The Times, 1 July 1948, p. 6
  12. ^ Cathedral web site
Church of England titles Preceded byCharles Lisle Carr Archdeacon of Sheffield 1922–1931 Succeeded byAlfred Charles Eustace Jarvis Scottish Episcopal Church titles Preceded byEdward Thomas Scott Reid Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway 1931 – 1938 Succeeded byJohn Charles Halland How Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles Preceded byFrancis Robinson Phelps Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town 1938 – 1948 Succeeded byGeoffrey Hare Clayton


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