Harold Richard Darby (28 February 1919^[1] – 27 December 1993) was the Bishop of Sherwood — a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwell — from 1975 until 1988.

He was educated at Durham University, ordained in 1951 and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Leyton and Harlow.^[2] Following these he was Vicar of Shrub End Colchester^[3] and then Waltham Abbey before being appointed Dean of Battle (the vicar of Battle is called the Dean) in 1970, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate on 24 June 1975 by Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, at York Minster.^[4] An honorary doctor of the University of Nottingham,^[5] he retired in December 1988^[6] and died on Boxing Day 1993.