Russell Darbyshire

{{Short description|English Anglican bishop}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend

| name = John Russell Darbyshire

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| title = Archbishop of Cape Town

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| diocese = Cape Town

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| elected = 1938

| term = 1938-1948

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| predecessor = Francis Phelps

| successor = Geoffrey Clayton

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| consecration = 30 April 1931

| consecrated_by = Walter Robberds

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| birth_place = Birkenhead, Cheshire, England

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| parents = Edward & Matilda Darbyshire

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| previous_post = Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1931-1938)

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| alma_mater = Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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John Russell Darbyshire (12 October 1880 – 30 June 1948) was an Anglican bishop.[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives]“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}

==Life and ministry==

He was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1880, the son of Edward and Matilda Darbyshire,National Archives, 1901 England Census, reference RG 13/650 and educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=DRBR899JR|name=Darbyshire, John Russell}} Ordained deacon in 1904 and priest in 1905,Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 his first post was as a Curate at St Andrew the Less, Cambridge[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Cambridge/StAndrewtheLess/index.html Genuki] 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[http://govern.dept.shef.ac.uk/calendar/21hon_grad.pdf Honorary graduates of Sheffield University]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} he was Archdeacon of Sheffield, his last post before his ordaination to the episcopate as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway[http://www.stcyprianslenzie.com/resources/St+Cyprian+History+to+1973.pdf List of the Bishops of Glasgow] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510142109/http://www.stcyprianslenzie.com/resources/St%2BCyprian%2BHistory%2Bto%2B1973.pdf |date=10 May 2008 }}- a post he held until 1938. In that year he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town."Archbishop of Cape Town enthroned", The Times, 1 October 1938, p. 11.

He was created a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1938.[http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/34586/pages/52/page.pdf London Gazette]

He visited England to attend the Lambeth Conference in 1948, and died in London on 30 June 1948."Obituary Archbishop Of Cape Town", The Times, 1 July 1948, p. 6 He never married.

A set of iron gates were erected in his memory at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.[http://www.stgeorgescathedral.com/stdavid.html Cathedral web site]