| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| John Russell Darbyshire | |
| Archbishop of Cape Town | |
| Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | Cape Town |
| Elected: | 1938 |
| Term: | 1938-1948 |
| Retired: | --> |
| Predecessor: | Francis Phelps |
| Successor: | Geoffrey Clayton |
| Ordination: | 1905 |
| Consecration: | 30 April 1931 |
| Consecrated By: | Walter Robberds |
| Birth Date: | 12 October 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Birkenhead, Cheshire, England |
| Parents: | Edward & Matilda Darbyshire |
| Previous Post: | Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1931-1938) |
| Alma Mater: | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
John Russell Darbyshire (12 October 1880 – 30 June 1948) was an Anglican bishop.[1] [2]
He was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1880, the son of Edward and Matilda Darbyshire,[3] and educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon in 1904 and priest in 1905,[4] his first post was as a Curate at St Andrew the Less, Cambridge[5] after which he was Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Later he was Vicar of St Luke, Liverpool then a Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral. From 1922 to 1931[6] he was Archdeacon of Sheffield, his last post before his ordaination to the episcopate as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway[7] - a post he held until 1938. In that year he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town.[8]
He was created a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1938.[9]
He visited England to attend the Lambeth Conference in 1948, and died in London on 30 June 1948.[10] He never married.
A set of iron gates were erected in his memory at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.[11]