Background
DARBY, John Lionel was born on November 20, 1831 in Ireland. Youngest son of late Reverend Christopher Darby.
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John Lionel Darby
Edit ProfileDean of Chester Rector of Kells
Education
Studied at Saint Columba’s College. Trinity College Dublin. Doctor of Divinity.
Career
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 Street 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 Street 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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Nationality
British