The Reverend Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th Baronet JP (5 February 1817 – 1 June 1883), was an English clergyman who served as rector of

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Early life

Darell was born on 5 February 1817. He was the second son of Sir Harry Darell, 2nd Baronet and Amelia Mary Anne Beecher. Among his siblings were Sir Harry Darell, 3rd Baronet, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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, Emily Mary Darell (wife of the Rev. Anthony Berwick Lechmere, son of

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), Isabella Martha Darell (wife of Henry Shirley of Peppingford Lodge, Sussex), and Eliza Anne Darell (wife of Henry Brown of the

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). The Darell family derived its fortune from his father and grandfather's service in the

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in the late eighteenth century. His paternal grandparents were the former Isabella Tullie and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, MP for

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. His maternal grandfather was William

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of Howbury,

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. He was educated at

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, receiving his B.A. in 1839 and M.A. in 1842.

Career

The Rector at

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from 1844, he succeeded as the 4th Baronet Darell, of Ancaster House, Richmond Hill (historically in

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) upon the death of his unmarried elder brother, Harry Francis Colville Darell on 6 January 1853. Sir William served as a Magistrate for Gloucestershire and Cork.

Personal life

On 28 January 1840, Darell was married to Mary Ford (d. 1842), eldest daughter of Sir Francis Ford, 2nd Baronet and Eliza Brady (a daughter of Henry Brady of

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, Ireland). Mary died, without issue, in 1842. His second marriage was on 18 April 1843 to Harriet Mary Tierney (d. 1873), daughter of Sir Edward Tierney, 2nd Baronet. Her father gave them Fretherne Court, which Sir Edward had completely transmogrified from a humble refectory into a lavish country seat with many reception rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, water towers and halls, and a chapel just inside the front entrance hall. Before her death in 1873, they were the parents of: * Flora Mary Darell (–1907), who married Edward Stopford Claremont, a son of

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, in 1872. * Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Baronet (1845–1919), who married Helen Frances Marshland, only child of Edward Marshland of Henbury Park,

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, in 1870. * Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell (1847–1898), a Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Yeomanry who married Amy Schuster, daughter of Leo Schuster, in 1869. They divorced in 1878 (she married Hon. Cecil Molyneux Howard, youngest son of the 17th Earl of Suffolk) and he married Florence ( Johnson) Broadwood, widow of Thomas Broadwood of Holmbush and daughter of William Johnson, in 1882. After his second wife's death in 1873, he married Fanny Julia ( Braithwaite) Clarke (d. 1894) on 7 January 1880 at

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. The widow of Tanner Owen Clarke (a son of Edward Hyde Clarke), she was a daughter of Alfred Braithwaite and Elizabeth Fuller. Sir William died in 1883 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Lionel.

Descendants

Through his younger son Edward, he was a grandfather of Florence Mary Darell, who became the Countess of Kinnoull upon her marriage to Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, 2003, volume 1, page 1030.

References

External links

Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Bt (1845-1919), Landowner and army officer
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