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 the order of reference (Parl. Papers, Rep. Committees, 1835, vi.) On 2 Sept. following Darling was knighted by William IV, in recognition of the undiminished confidence reposed in him. He was not employed again. He became general on 23 Nov. 1841, and held in succession the colonelcies of the 90th, 41st, and 69th foot. He married a daughter of Colonel Dumaresq and sister of a Royal Staff Corps officer of that name who was with Darling in New South Wales. Darling died at his residence, Brunswick Square, Brighton, on 2 April 1858, at the age of eighty-two. Two of his brothers also rose to general's rank: Major-general Henry Charles Darling, successively of the 45th foot, old 99th foot, and Nova Scotia Fencibles, who was appointed lieutenant-governor of Tobago in 1831 (and who is confused in ‘Gent. Mag.’ for 1835 with another officer of like name and standing, Major-general Henry Darling, quartermaster-general's department, who died in that year); and Major-general William Lindsay Darling, a Peninsula and Waterloo officer of the 51st foot.

[War Office Records, 45th foot; Phillipart's Roy. Mil. Calendar, 1820; Hart's Army Lists; Braim's Hist. of New South Wales (London, 1846), vol. i.; Acts and Ordinances passed during the Administration of Governor Darling, see Parl. Papers, Accounts and Papers, 1828, 1830–31, ix. 279, 1829–30, 1831–2, xxxii. 439, 385; Heaton's Australian Biog. Dict., under ‘Darling’ and ‘Wentworth;’ pamphlet entitled A Reply to Major-general H. C. Darling's Statement, by John Stephen, Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1833, 8vo); also the Parl. Papers cited above, together with Parl. Reps. Committees, 1835, vi., and the appendix thereto, and the various newspaper articles enumerated in the same appendix as containing the libels on Governor Darling.] 

DARLING, WILLIAM (1802–1884), anatomist, was born at Demse in Scotland, in 1802. He was educated at Edinburgh University, and in 1830 went to America and began to study medicine in the University Medical School, New York, where he took a degree in 1840, having devoted the whole of his time during the intervening years to the teaching as well as the study of anatomy, in which branch of the profession he acquired a considerable reputation. In 1842 he came to England, and in November 1856 was made a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was already well advanced in age when he passed the examination for the fellowship of the college. In 1862 he returned to New York, and was soon afterwards appointed professor of anatomy in the medical school in which he had been a student. His anatomical collection was considered one of the finest in the city. Besides his knowledge of anatomy, Darling had a thorough acquaintance with mathematics, and exhibited an unusual taste for poetry, which he occasionally essayed to write himself. His only publications are ‘Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy,’ London, 1880, obl. fol., ‘A Small Compound of Anatomy,’ and ‘Essentials of Anatomy.’ He also edited Professor Draper's work. He died at the university of New York on Christmas day 1884, at the advanced age of eighty-two.

[Times, 7 Jan. 1885; Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, cxii. 22.] 

DARLINGTON, JOHN (d. 1284), archbishop of Dublin and theologian, was an Englishman, whose name suggests that either he or his family came from Darlington. He became a Dominican friar, and it is probable that he studied at Paris at the Dominican priory of St. James. The Jacobins of Paris were afterwards famous for the ‘Concordances to the Scriptures,’ the first imperfect edition of which was issued by their thirteenth-century prior, Hugh of Saint-Cher, afterwards a cardinal. A second and fuller edition of Hugh's ‘Concordances,’ called the ‘Concordantiæ Magnæ,’ was, about 1250, drawn up by the prior's disciples, among whom a large number of Englishmen, including John of Darlington, Richard of Stavensby, and Hugh of Croydon, are specially mentioned, and from whom the fuller edition derived its alternative name of ‘Anglicanæ Concordantiæ.’ We have the express testimony of Rishanger (p. 89, Rolls ed.) that Darlington was prominently connected with this work. Hence the conjecture of his residence in Paris, though the fullest list of foreign students does not include his name (, Die Universität Paris und die Fremden an derselben). These ‘Concordances’ were the basis of all later works on the same subject, and Darlington must have already become famous for his share in them and for other works such as sermons and disputations (, Comm. de Scriptt. Brit. p. 302), when in 1256 he was made a member of Henry III's council, and taken largely into that king's confidence (, Chronica Majora, ed. Luard, v. 547). He also became Henry's confessor, though whether this was earlier, as the probabilities of the case suggest, or later, as the statement that he acted in this capacity during Henry's old age shows, can hardly be determined. In 1256 he persuaded the king to release a converted Jew