Derlington, John De, Dd

Derlington, John De, D.D.

an Irish prelate, was born at Derlington (now Darlington), in the diocese of Durham, and was a Dominican friar. He was confessor to king Henry III; was promoted to the see of Dublin in September 1279, and consecrated archbishop the following April. He died March 29,1284. See D'Alton, Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin, page 104.