Dick Darby

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The Rt Rev Harold Richard "Dick" Darby was the Suffragan Bishop of Sherwood from 1975 until 1989. He was born on 28 February 1919 ^[1] and educated at Durham University. He was ordained in 1951 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Leyton and Harlow.^[2] Following these he was Vicar of Shrub End Colchester^[3] and then Waltham Abbey before being appointed Dean of Battle in 1970, a post he held until his ascension to the Episcopate five years later. An honorary doctor of Nottingham University,^[4] he retired in 1989 and died on Boxing Day 1993.

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Preceded by
Kenneth George Thompson Bishop of Sherwood
1975 –1989 Succeeded by
Alan Wyndham Morgan

Notes

^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877

^ “Crockford's clerical directory, 1976” (Lambeth,Church House ISBN 0108153674)

^ Church history

^ List of awards

v · d · eBishops of Sherwood

Kenneth Thompson • Dick Darby • Alan Morgan • Tony Porter

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