- William Ord
William Henry Ord (
2 January 1781 –28 July 1855 ) was an English Whigcite journal | title=The Left-Wing Whigs: Whitbread, the Mountain and Reform, 1809-1815 | first=Dean | last=Rapp | journal=The Journal of British Studies | volume=21 | number=2 | month=Spring | year=1982 | pages=35–66 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9371%28198221%2921%3A2%3C35%3ATLWWTM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E | accessdate=2006-12-14 | issue=2 | doi=10.1086/385789] politician and landowner, the son of William Ord and Eleanor Brandling. [cite web | url=http://www.a2a.org.uk/html/155-nro324.htm | title=Blackett-Ord Papers | accessdate=2006-12-14] cite journal | first=Edward | last=Porritt | title=Review of "The Creevey Papers; A Selection from the Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevey, M. P. Born 1768; Died 1838 by Herbert Maxwell" | journal=The American Historical Review | volume=9 | number=3 | month=April | year=1904 | pages=581 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28190404%299%3A3%3C579%3ATCPASF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O | accessdate=2006-12-14 | issue=3 | doi=10.2307/1833494]He inherited estates and coal and lead mining interests at
Whitfield, Northumberland on the death of his father. His residence was Whitfield Hall. After his father's death, his mother remarriedThomas Creevey in 1803.Ord was granted the Freedom of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1808. He was
Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1802–1832, when one of the seats was eliminated for that constituency. He was defeated that year when standing for South Northumberland, but was returned for Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1835–1852. [cite web | url=http://www.morpethtoday.co.uk/mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=34312 | title=Career of William Ord | accessdate=2006-12-14] Politically, Ord was a left-wing Whig, a follower ofSamuel Whitbread .He married Mary Scott, daughter of the Rector of St Lawrence,
Southampton ,Hampshire and sister ofJane Harley, Countess of Oxford .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 in 1851) and to her niece, who married Rev John Alexander Blackett, Rector of Wolsingham, on condition that he changed his name to Blackett-Ord.References
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