Dick Darby

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{{Portal|Christianity}}Harold Richard Darby (28 February 1919“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} – 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.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} Following these he was Vicar of Shrub End Colchester[https://web.archive.org/web/20220606021028/http://www.geocities.com/shrubend2004/aschistory.html Church history] 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.{{Church Times | title = New suffragans consecrated | archive = 1975_06_27_003 | issue = 5863 | date = 27 June 1975 | page = 3 | accessed = 9 March 2016 }} An honorary doctor of the University of Nottingham,{{Cite web |url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/registrar/honorary-degrees/hon-deg-list-july08.pdf |title=List of awards |access-date=2008-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207010119/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/registrar/honorary-degrees/hon-deg-list-july08.pdf |archive-date=2008-12-07 |url-status=dead }} he retired in December 1988{{Church Times | title = Diocese's farewell to bishop Dick Darby | archive = 1988_12_23_002 | issue = 6567 | date = 23 December 1988 | page = 2 | accessed = 9 March 2016 }} and died on Boxing Day 1993.