John Lionel Darby, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was Dean

Dean (religion)

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 of Chester

Chester Cathedral

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 in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th
Born in Ireland

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 into an ecclesiastical family 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

Curate

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 at Winwick

Winwick, Cheshire

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 and Mells

Mells, Somerset

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. He was the Incumbent

Vicar

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 of Newburgh, Lancashire

Newburgh, Lancashire

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 from 1859 to 1868. Later he was Diocesan Inspector for the Diocese of Chester

Diocese of Chester

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 and Rector

Rector

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 of St Bridget’s, Chester

Chester

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. He was Archdeacon of Chester from 1877 until 1886 and his elevation to the Deanery

Deanery

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He died on 5 November 1919.