Dick Darby, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDick Darby
Bishop of Sherwood; British Anglican bishop
Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1919
Date of Death: 26-Dec-1993
Profession: priest
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Dick Darby
- Harold Richard "Dick" Darby (28 February 1919 – 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.
- Following these he was Vicar of Shrub End Colchester 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.
- An honorary doctor of the University of Nottingham, he retired in December 1988 and died on Boxing Day 1993.
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