CO-CCCF-0011

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN

LOVING MEMORY 

OF

VIVIAN WILLIAM DARLING

ARCHDEACON OF CLOYNE

WHO COMPLETED 51 YEARS

OF A FAITHFUL MINISTRY WHILE

RECTOR OF THIS PARISH.

DIED 31ST JANUARY 1965

IN HIS 79TH YEAR.

HIS WIFE HONOR FRANCES GARDE DARLING

DIED 31ST MARCH 1984 IN HER 79TH YEAR.

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909955540001
Longitude: 
-8.7927961299979
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
O'CONNELL, CORK
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Vivian William
Surname: 
Darling
Date of death - day: 
31
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1965
Age: 
79
Name: 
Honor Frances Garde
Surname: 
Darling
Date of death - day: 
31
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1984
Age: 
79
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Notes: 

The cross faces west as opposed to east.

Archdeacon Vivian William Darling was one of the last resident Rectors of Magourney Union, but less well known is that during WW1 he was Chaplain to the Forces with the nominal rank of Captain. From 1914 to 1919 he served in France and Belgium, and we can hardly imagine the horrors he must have seen. After the war he became curate at St. Lukes in Cork, where the Rector was Rev. Flewett (later Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross). Darling married Flewett’s daughter, Honor Frances Garde, and among their children was Right Rev. Richard Darling, Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. Unlike most officers, he Darling does not seem to have accepted his WW1 Campaign Medals. (Source: ACR Heritage).