Darby, John Nelson
Darby, John Nelson (1800–82), *Plymouth Brother and founder of the ‘Darbyites’. He was ordained to a title in Wicklow c. 1826, but resigned in 1827, and shortly after joined a sect called the ‘Brethren’, then newly founded by A. N. Groves, which rejected all Church order and outward forms. In 1845 a