Thom's Irish Who's Who/Darlington, Rev. Joseph

DARLINGTON, Rev. Joseph, S.J., M.A. (Oxon.); b. 5th November, 1850; son of Ralph Darlington, Southworth House, Wigan, Lancashire. Educ.: Rossall; Brasenose College, Oxford, Univ. of Louvain. Ordained Anglican clergyman, 1874; Curate of Dymock, Gloucestershire; Rector of Thorndon, Eye, Suffolk, 1876; resigned and entered the Catholic Church, 1878; Member of the Society of Jesus, 1880; has since been devoted to University Education in Ireland; Gold Medallist in Mental Science, Royal University, 1887; Fellow and Examiner, 1890-1909; Dean of Faculty and Professor of Mental Science at University College, Dublin; Dean of Residence and Governor of the Catholic Medical School, 1890-1909. Founded St. Ignatius' Hall, a Residential Hostel for Students, 1910, of which he was in charge till 1920; Editor of the Irish Monthly from 1920. Pubns.: edited the Farmer's Boy: contributed a short Biography to the City of Peace, and numerous articles to the Lyceum, New Ireland Review, Ecclesiastical Record, Studies, and other periodicals. Res: Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin.