DARELL, Sir Harry Francis Colville, 3 Baronet. b. Lucknow 17 Nov. 1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p. d. Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.
DARGAN, William (son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer). b. co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly £100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of £20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition; the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. d. 2 Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. The Irish industrial exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule (1854) ix-xiv, portrait; Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook (1853) pp. 12, 41, 148, portrait.
DARK, James Henry. b. Edgware road, London 24 May 1795; professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to 1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood road, overlooking the ground, and d. there 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Kensal Green 21 Oct. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i, 350–51 (1862), v, pp. xiii, xxii, (1876).
DARLEY, Edward. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep. 1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24 Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 24 North bank, Regent’s park, London 24 March 1854 aged 78.
DARLEY, Right Rev. John Richard (2 son of Richard Darley of Fairfield, co. Monaghan). b. Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch. 1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R. of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of The Grecian drama, a treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks 1840; A treatise on Homer with questions 1848. d. The Palace, Kilmore 20 Jany. 1884.
DARLEY, William Wallace. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut. col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G. 7 Feb. 1870. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.
DARLING, Sir Charles Henry (eld. son of Henry Charles Darling, governor of Barbados, who d. 1845). b. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to 30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April 1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25 Jany. 1870.
DARLING, George. b. Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists; author of An essay on medical economy 1814 anon.; Instructions for making unfermented bread 1846 anon. 17 ed. 1851. d. Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.
DARLING, James. b. Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn, London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death; commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840 named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan library; compiled and published Bibliotheca Clericalis 1843; Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general literature 2 vols. 1854–59. d. Fortess terrace west, Kentish Town, London 2 March 1862.
DARLING, John (younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq. London). b. 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London, Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based 1849; A treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee Relief Act 1855. d. Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1858.