Charles Blackett-Ord

{{Short description|Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1917 to 1931}}

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Charles Edward Blackett-Ord,[http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='MS%202764%2F3%2F3%2F19') University of Aberdeen Archival Database] (16 September 1858 – 16 July 1931) was Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1917 to 1931.

Born in Grosvenor Square, London into an ecclesiastical familyHe was the 4th son of the Rev. John Alexander Blackett-Ord, sometime incumbent of Woolsington and Heddon-on-the-Wall ‘ BLACKETT ORD, Ven. Charles Edward’’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U211085, accessed 1 April 2013] on 16 September 1858, Blackett-Ord was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1882Durham. Ordinations. Deacons. The Times (London, England), Monday, Jun 05, 1882; pg. 8; Issue 30525 and priest the following year Durham. Ordinations. Priests. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, May 22, 1883; pg. 4; Issue 30826 and began his career with curacies in South Shields and Ryton.Crockford's Clerical Directory1929–30 Oxford, OUP, 1929 p115 He held incumbencies at Ovingham,[http://ndfhs.org.uk/OI/misc/NBL/COR/COR-OVI.htmndfhs]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/26139/pages/1104/page.pdf London Gazette] Newburn,Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 19, 1891; pg. 8; Issue 33459 Stamfordham and Rothbury"Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland: its history, traditions, folk-lore and scenery" Dixon, D.D:Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Robert Redpath, 1903Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, Jan 14, 1901; pg. 5; Issue 36351 before his Archdeacon’s appointment.Church Appointments The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 25, 1917; pg. 3; Issue 41618 He was appointed honorary chaplain to the Northumberland Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment based in Newcastle upon Tyne, on 23 August 1902.{{London Gazette|issue=27467 |page=5469| date=22 August 1902}}

A keen amateur cricketer,[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1018/1018695/1018695.html Cricket Archive] Blackett-Ord died in post on 16 July 1931.Obituary:The Archdeacon Of Northumberland The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 17, 1931; pg. 16; Issue 45877

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.