Godfrey Darbishire
| Full name | Godfrey Darbishire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 September 1853 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 October 1889 (aged 36) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Polk County, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Rugby School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Balliol College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Annie Shelby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Robert Shelby Darbishire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Civil engineer and surveyor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Forward | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1881 | Wales | 1 | (0) |
Godfrey Darbishire FRGS (26 September 1853 – 29 October 1889) was an English-born rugby union forward who represented Bangor at club level and played international rugby for Wales, gaining one cap in the country's very first international rugby match.
Godfrey Darbishire was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester in 1853. He was educated at Rugby School before graduating to Balliol College, Oxford. After spending 18 months at Oxford, his father removed him from the university to rejoin the family. Darbishire moved to North Wales, where his family were quarry owners, well known in the Caernarvonshire area. Darbishire settled in the town of Penmaenmawr where he stayed at Pendyffryn Hall, the family's manor house. The 1881 census records Darbishire's profession as a civil engineer and surveyor, which has some connection to the family's business in stone quarrying.
In 1883, Darbishire emigrated to America where he carried out important surveys of the state. While in America he met Annie Stein Shelby of Chicago. They married in Danville, Kentucky on 3 June 1885, and had one known child, Robert Shelby Derbishire in 1886; by which time the family had moved to Fort Meade in Florida, where Darbishire had become an orange farmer. It was while living in Polk County that Darbishire died on 29 October 1889, after becoming ill from exposure while on a small boat in the sea off Key West; he was 36 years of age.
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