Waddilove, Robert Darley, 1736-1828

found: His We the undersigned, being friends to orderly government, and desirous that some law may be prepared to repress those seditious meetings, which appear to us to threaten the existance of our happy constitution, are determined to attend the meeting at York, on Tuesday (tomorrow), 1795:signed at end (R. D. Waddilove)

found: DNB(Robert Darley Waddilove, b. 1736; ended life as Archdeacon of Ripon; d. 1828)

found: Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, Febraury 14, 2014(Waddilove, Robert Darley (1736-1828); dean of Ripon; born in November 1736; son of Abel Darley of Boroughbridge; he was educated at Westminster and Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which society he became a scholar, but was unable to take a fellowship, having inherited landed property at Boroughbridge from his uncle, Robert Waddilove, president of Bernard's Inn, whose name he assumed; he graduated B.A. in 1759, and M.A. in 1762; he was curate of Wotton in Surrey, and in 1767 rector of Whitby; from 1771 to 1779 he was chaplain to the embassy of Lord Grantham at Madrid, during which time he exchanged Whitby for Topcliffe, and appointed himself rector of Cherry Burton, both in Yorkshire; in 1780 he became prebendary of Ripon, 1782 prebendary of York, and in 1786 archdeacon of the East Riding; he was chaplain to Archbishops Robert Hay Drummond and William Markham and in 1791 became dean of Ripon; he received the degree of LL.D. from Archbishop John Moore (1730-1805); he held the deanery of Ripon with the archdeaconry till his death; Waddilove died at the deanery, Ripon, on 18 Aug. 1828)

found: Cambridge Alumni Database, via WWW, February 14, 2014(Waddilove (formerly Darley), Robert Darley; son of Abel Darley of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire; born November 1736 at Boroughbridge; B.A., 1759 ; M.A., 1762; assumed the name of Waddilove in addition to that of Darley in1762 on inheriting the property of his uncle, Robert Waddilove, of Boroughbridge; Archdeacon of East Riding, 1786-1828; Dean of Ripon, 1791-1828; translated Mengs' Essay on Painting, and contributed articles to Archaeologia; died August 18, 1828 at the Deanery, Ripon)