Charles Blackett-Ord

Charles Edward Blackett-Ord,^[1] DD^[2] was Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1917 to 1931.

Born in Grosvenor Square, London into an ecclesiastical family^[3] on 16 September 1858,^[4] Blackett-Ord was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1882^[5] and priest the following year ^[6] and began his career with curacies in South Shields and Ryton.^[7] He held incumbencies at Ovingham,^[8][9] Newburn,^[10] Stamfordham and Rothbury ^{[11] [12]} before his Archdeacon’s appointment.^[13]

A keen amateur cricketer,^[14]Blackett-Ord died in post on 16 July 1931.^[15] 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;^[16] and secondly in 1927, Grace Marcia, daughter of the Rev. Dixon Dixon Brown.^[17]

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