Darley Waddilove
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Robert Darley Waddilove (born Robert Darley; known after 1762 as Darley Waddilove; November 1736 – 18 August 1828) was Dean of Ripon.
Waddilove was born in November 1736, was son of Abel Darley of
He held the deanery of Ripon with the archdeaconry until his death. During his residence in Spain Waddilove became friends with Abbe Bayer, tutor to the Spanish court, and had access to the library of the
On 3 April 1781, at the age of 45, he married Anne Hope Grant, daughter of Ludovic Grant (Luss in Argyll) who was 10 years his junior. Anne died in May 1797 after a long and painful illness, aged just 51.
Waddilove's eldest son, Thomas Darley Waddilove, died in March 1799 aged only 17, and his youngest son (another priest), Robert Darley Waddilove, died in Penzance, Cornwall in July 1813 at the age of 24.
The only one of Waddilove's sons to father children was William James Darley Waddilove MA (Hons. Cantab. St John's); he became chaplain to the Duke of Roxburghe and married Elizabeth Anne, the sister of the statesman James Graham of Netherby. William was the father of naval lieutenant Robert Waddilove[3] and admiral Charles Waddilove of Beacon Grange, Hexham. One of the Waddiove's daughters, Georgiana Maria, married Charles Christopher Oxley, of Minster House, Ripon.
References
- ^ "WADDILOVE (formerly DARLEY), ROBERT DARLEY (WDLV755RD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Grewelthorpe History - Grewelthorpe: Boxing Match".
- A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Waddilove, Robert Darley". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. The entry use these sources:
- Memorials of Ripon (Surtees Soc.), ii. 275
- Nichols Literary Anecdotes, vol viii. 636, 650
- Documents in Bodleian Library, &c.
- Gentleman' Magazine 1829, i. 90
- Burke Landed Gentry
- Thomas Wilson The Monuments, Gravestones and other Sepulchral Memorials in Ripon Cathedral 1847
- Notes and Queries, 9th ser. iv. 5.]
- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803–1842), Saturday 1 August 1829, page 4