John Darby (Dean of Chester)

John Lionel Darby (20 November 1831 – 5 November 1919) was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.

Born in County Kilkenny, Ireland into an ecclesiastical family as the youngest son of Christopher Darby, sometime Rector of Kells, County Kilkenny on 20 November 1831, he was educated at St Columba's College and Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1857. He began his career with curacies at Winwick and Mells. He was the Incumbent of Newburgh, Lancashire from 1859 to 1868. Later he was Diocesan Inspector for the Diocese of Chester and Rector of St Bridget's, Chester. He was Archdeacon of Chester from 1877 until 1886 and his elevation to the Deanery.

He died on 5 November 1919.

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"Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir Supplement p30: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
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The Times Friday, 30 Apr 1886; pg. 10; Issue 31747; col FNew Dean of Chester

Church of England titles
Preceded byJohn Saul Howson	Dean of Chester 1886 – 1919	Succeeded byFrank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett

v t e Deans of Chester
Early modern	Thomas Clerk Henry Man William Cliffe Richard Walker John Piers Richard Langworth Robert Dorset Thomas Modesley John Nutter William Barlow Henry Parry Thomas Mallory William Nichols Henry Bridgeman James Arderne Laurence Fogg Walter Offley Thomas Allen Thomas Brooke William Smith George Cotton
Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley Robert Hodgson Peter Vaughan Edward Copleston Henry Phillpotts George Davys Frederick Anson John Howson John Darby Frank Bennett Norman Tubbs Michael Gibbs George Addleshaw Ingram Cleasby Stephen Smalley Gordon McPhate Tim Stratford

v t e Diocese of Chester
Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester
Office holders	Mark Tanner, Bishop of Chester Julie Conalty, Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead Sam Corley, Bishop suffragan of Stockport AEO: Stephen Race, Bishop suffragan of Beverley & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Tim Stratford, Dean of Chester Michael Gilbertson, Archdeacon of Chester Jane Proudfoot, Archdeacon of Macclesfield
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Manchester Archdeacon of Liverpool