John Darley (bishop) explained

John Richard Darley (1799 – 1884), a "man who laboured strenuously to awaken and sustain the practical interest of the clergy and laity",^[1] was a 19th-century Irish Anglican bishop.^[2]

Born in County Monaghan and educated at the Royal School Dungannon and Trinity College, Dublin,^[3] he was later Headmaster of his old school.^[4] Ordained in 1826 he was the Rector of Drumgoon and Archdeacon of Ardagh before elevation to the episcopate^[5] as the 6th bishop of the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. In 1859, Darley both built and financed the running of a school at Cootehill, Co. Cavan. Today, this school is known as the Darley National School.^[6]

Notes and References

1. [The Times]
2. "Darley, John Richard (1799–1884)'", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Blacker,B.H (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004)
3. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p211: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
4. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Descriptions/NRY/ButtercrambeDarleys.html Genealogical web site
5. IRELAND. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper(London, England), Sunday, 27 September 1874; Issue 1662
6. Jonathan A. Smyth, 'John Richard Darley (1799-1884), Bishop, Scholar & Philanthropist', Breifne, vol.xi, no.44. (2008)