Frederick Darwent

{{Short description|Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney (1927–2020)}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Frederick Darwent

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| title = Bishop Emeritus of Aberdeen and Orkney

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| diocese = Aberdeen and Orkney

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| elected = 1976

| term = 1976-1991

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Frederick Charles Darwent (20 April 1927 – 15 January 2020) was bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, from 1976 to 1991.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1305803.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110153708/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1305803.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 November 2012|publisher=The Independent|title=Birthdays|accessdate=2011-02-01|location=London|date=20 April 1996}}{{cite book|author=David M. Bertie|title=Scottish episcopal clergy, 1689-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ceey5RQHgHoC&pg=PA518|accessdate=1 February 2011|year=2000|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-567-08746-1|pages=518}}

==Biography==

Born in Liverpool, Darwent was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School. After military service in the Far East with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers he was ordained Deacon in 1961; and Priest in 1963.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p238 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} He was a Curate in Wigan then held incumbencies in Strichen, New Pitsligo and Fraserburgh. He was made a Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1971; and was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1973 to 1978. He was also a JP in Aberdeen from 1989 to 1996. He died in January 2020 at the age of 92.‘DARWENT, Rt Rev. Frederick Charles’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U12861, accessed 21 Oct 2013]