WADDILOVE, ROBERT DARLEY, son of Abel Darley, Boroughbridge, Yorks.; bapt. Aldborough, Yorks. 23 Nov 1736; adm. Jan 1750/1 (as Robert Waldilove, sic); in school list 1754; Clare Hall, Cambridge, scholar, matr. Mich. 1755; BA 1759; MA 1762; DD Lambeth 21 Jan 1804; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 23 Sep 1759, priest (Winchester) Jun 1762; Curate, Winwick, Northants 1759, subsequently Curate, Wotton, Surrey, and Abinger, Surrey, to 1766; assumed additional surname of Waddilove 1762, on inheriting Boroughbridge estate of his uncle Robert Waddilove, Principal of Barnards’ Inn; adm. Inner Temple 25 Mar 1766 (chambers there 25 Apr 1766); Curate, Ockham, Surrey 1766-71; Perpetual Curate of Dishforth, Yorks.; Rector of Whitby, Yorks., 2 Mar 1767 – Feb 1774; Chaplain to Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (qv), when Ambassador in Madrid 1771-9; Vicar of Topcliffe, Yorks., 6 Feb 1774; Rector of Cherry Burton, Yorks., 9 Mar 1775 (disp. to hold with Topcliffe); Prebendary of Ripon 25 Jul 1780; Prebendary of York from 22 Feb 1782; Archdeacon of the East Riding from 3 Mar 1786; Dean of Ripon from 21 Jan 1792; FSA 16 Feb 1775; when in Spain he collated the MS of Strabo in the library of the Escurial for Thomas Falconer’s edition, 1807, and procured information for Robertson’s History of America; translated Mengs’s Essay on Painting, 1796, and contributed several papers to Archaeologia; m. 3 Apr 1781 Anne Hope, sister of Sir James Grant, Bart. (qv); d. 18 Aug 1828. DNB.