John Russell Darbyshire (12 October 1880 – 30 June 1948) was an Anglican bishop.National Archives“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007
Life and ministry He was born in Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1880, the son of Edward and Matilda Darbyshire,National Archives, 1901 England Census, reference RG 13/650 and educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon in 1904 and priest in 1905,Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 his first post was as a Curate at St Andrew the Less, CambridgeGenuki 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 1931Honorary graduates of Sheffield University he was Archdeacon of Sheffield, his last post before his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, a post he held until 1938.List of the Bishops of Glasgow In that year he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town."Archbishop of Cape Town enthroned", The Times, 1 October 1938, p. 11.
He was created a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1938.London Gazette
He visited England to attend the Lambeth Conference in 1948, and died in London on 30 June 1948."Obituary Archbishop Of Cape Town", The Times, 1 July 1948, p. 6 He never married.
A set of iron gates were erected in his memory at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.Cathedral web site
Bibliography The Christian Faith and some Alternatives (1921) Our Treasury of Prayer and Praise (1926) Jesus, the Messiah in the Gospels (1933)
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