Charles Blackett-Ord

Charles Edward Blackett-Ord,^[1] (16 September 1858 – 16 July 1931) was Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1917 to 1931.

Born in Grosvenor Square, London into an ecclesiastical family^[2] on 16 September 1858, Blackett-Ord was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1882^[3] and priest the following year ^[4] and began his career with curacies in South Shields and Ryton.^[5] He held incumbencies at Ovingham,^[6][7] Newburn,^[8] Stamfordham and Rothbury^[9][10] before his Archdeacon’s appointment.^[11] He was appointed honorary chaplain to the Northumberland Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment based in Newcastle upon Tyne, on 23 August 1902.^[12]

A keen amateur cricketer,^[13] Blackett-Ord died in post on 16 July 1931.^[14]

He married twice: firstly in 1887, Mary Delaval the only daughter of the Rev. Thomas Henry Chester, Rector of Ryton, with whom he had one daughter; and secondly in 1927, Grace Marcia, daughter of the Rev. Dixon Dixon Brown.