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

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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, but was returned for

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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,

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and sister of Jane Harley, Countess of Oxford. Their only son, also named William Henry (1803–1838), was a barrister and Member of Parliament for

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, married Frances Vere Lorraine in 1829 but died aged only 36 in 1838. In 1855 his father left his estates to his son's widow Frances (who remarried Sir Edward Blackett, 6th Baronet in 1851) and to his niece, Anne Jane Hamilton, who married Rev John Alexander Blackett, Rector of Wolsingham, the youngest son of

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of Wylam, on condition that he changed his name to Blackett-Ord.

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