Vice Admiral George Darby (c. 1720 – 1790) was an officer of the British Royal Navy.

[2] In the American Revolutionary War of 1775 to 1783, Admiral Keppel's resignation during the crisis following the Battle of Ushant in 1778 left a vacancy for command of the Western Squadron.

[1] Darby was appointed to the Board of Admiralty[5] as First Naval Lord in the North ministry in September 1780.

This event is recorded in a full-length portrait by George Romney, painted 1783–6, which hangs in the National Maritime Museum.

Darby was married to Mary, daughter of Sir William St Quintin, 4th Baronet and then to Ann Bridges, a widow whose brother was colonial agent and MP, Richard Jackson.