William Ord (2 January 1781 – 28 July 1855) was an English
Whig politician and landowner, the son of William Ord and Eleanor Brandling.
He inherited estates and coal and lead mining interests at
Whitfield, Northumberland
Whitfield is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Plenmeller with Whitfield, in the county of Northumberland, England about southwest of Hexham. It has a farming community and is set against a beautiful scenic background; som ...
on the death of his father. His residence was Whitfield Hall. After his father's death, his mother remarried
Thomas Creevey in 1803.
Ord was granted the Freedom of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1808. He was
Member of Parliament for
Morpeth 1802–32, when one of the seats was eliminated for that constituency. He was defeated that year when standing for
South Northumberland
South Northumberland (formally the "Southern Division of Northumberland") was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc ...
, but was returned for
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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1835–52.
Politically, Ord was a left-wing Whig, a follower of
Samuel Whitbread.
He married Mary Scott, daughter of the Rector of St Lawrence,
Southampton,
Hampshire and sister of
Jane Harley, Countess of Oxford
Jane Elizabeth Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (''née'' Scott; 1774–1824) was an English noblewoman, known as a patron of the Radicalism (historical)#United Kingdom, Reform movement and a lover of Lord Byron.
Life
She was a d ...
.
Their only son, also named William Henry (1803–1839), was a barrister and Member of Parliament for
Newport, Isle of Wight, married Frances Vere Lorraine in 1829 but died aged only 36 in 1839. In 1855 his father left his estates to his son's widow Frances (who remarried
Sir Edward Blackett, 6th Baronet
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Blackett family, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2013. The Blackett family can be traced back to the Blacketts/Blakheveds of Woodcroft, County Durham, some ...
in 1851) and to his niece, Anne Jane Hamilton, who married Rev John Alexander Blackett, Rector of Wolsingham, the youngest son of
Christopher Blackett of Wylam, on condition that he changed his name to Blackett-Ord.
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1781 births
1855 deaths
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