Memoir of the Rev. William Darnell. 231 



The Eev. Edward A. Wilkinson, Whitworth, Spennymoor, 

 supplies the following remarks on his deceased friend and former 

 ecclesiastical superior. 



" At Bamburgh, Mr Darnell made himself beloved hy all 

 classes of his parishioners by his universally kind and genial 

 manners, and his sincere sympathy and ready help, wherever 

 trouble or distress required them to be shown. 



"A beautifully restored church, with services reverently eon- 

 ducted ; schools maintained with orderly discipline under his 

 immediate supervision and conscientious care ; a successfully 

 administered parish, bore their ample testimony to his ministerial 

 worth. 



"He acted as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Nor- 

 thumberland, and was regular in his attendance at the Petty 

 Sessions at Belford. 



" When increasing years and failing health caused him to re- 

 linquish his charge at Bamburgh, his parishioners and friends 

 in the North sustained a loss which they deplored, and which 

 they will not easily supply. 



" Mr Darnell was, as other Vicars of Bamburgh, Librarian to 

 the Trustees of Lord Crewe, and had charge, and took great 

 pains with the cataloguing of the valuable books left to it, by 

 Archdeacon Sharpe and others." 



As a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, from July 

 1849, he was a good attender of meetings, till the change of the 

 day of meeting from Thursday to Wednesday, obliged him to 

 prefer following his Magisterial duties on that day. Like the 

 late Eev. John F. Bigge, he attended the meeting of the Club 

 at Berwick, October 8th, 1884, and full of spirits and life both 

 bade farewell to their friends, who all unwitting of the future, 

 saw then for the last time their kind, happy faces. Mr Darnell 

 was President of the Club in 1858, and his Address may be found 

 in vol. IV. of the "Proceedings," pp. 57-64. Mr Darnell also 

 contributed notes " On the ancient Parish Church at Bamburgh," 

 and on a " Shipwreck near Bamburgh, in 1472," to vol. VI. , pp. 

 325-329. 



