Walter George Darby was born in 1865.He was the son of Reverend John Clere Scott Darby and Mary Lewis Bigge. He married Violet Beeston, daughter of Richard Beeston, in 1900.

A probate record for Walter George Darby who died at Chislehurst on 7th Feb 1938 matches the inscription.  He was baptised in Warbleton on 3 Sep 1865.