Background
He was born in Edinburgh in 1797, and in 1809 was apprenticed to the publisher Adam Black.
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James Darling
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Education
Having completed his term he came to London in 1818 and entered the establishment of Ogle, Duncan, & Cochran, 295 High Holborn, who carried on a trade in theological books
Career
He remained with them until 1825, when he started in business on his own account at Little Queen Street, Lincoln"s Inn Fields. Acting on a suggestion of several clergymen, he in 1839 began a library for the use of theological students. lieutenant was at first named the Clerical Library and afterwards the Metropolitan Library.
Every subscriber of one guinea was to have the privilege of borrowing from the library any volume he pleased, and subscribers were also entitled to make use of the reading-room as a kind of club, with papers, reviews, and magazines being supplied.
The Clerical Library was not successful as a business, and Darling returned to work as a bookseller. Darling died at his residence, Fortess Terrace West, Kentish Town, London, on 2 March 1862.
