Matthew George Darby, is a British publisher, conservationist and landscape design

Landscape design

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er. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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. He is the son of Adrian Darby

Adrian Darby

Adrian Marten George Darby, OBE is a British conservationist and academic. He is the son of Col. Cyril Darby MC, of Kemerton Court, Gloucestershire and Monica Dunne, daughter of Marten Dunne, MP of Gatley Park, Herefordshire...

 and Lady Meriel Darby, daughter of former British Prime Minister

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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, Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...

 (also known as 14th Earl of Home, and Lord Home of the Hirsel). Home's correspondence with Darby was published as Letters to a Grandson in 1983.

Darby is best known as the creator of the Pocket Canons

Pocket Canons

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, an internationally best-selling series of books from the bible published in sixteen countries, and winner of the Publishers' Publicity Circle award for Generic Campaign of the Year in 1998. Darby is married to singer-songwriter Christina Kulukundis and has two children.

Other voluntary interests:

Board member of the Cotswolds Conservation Board; Governor of Kemerton Conservation Trust

Kemerton Conservation Trust

Kemerton Conservation Trust is a registered charity which aims "to conserve wildlife and places of beauty in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and adjoining counties for the public benefit." Much of the Trust’s activity takes place in the area surrounding Bredon Hill in south...

; Trustee of Iris Darnton Foundation.