He was the second son of Thomas Ord of Fenham and Anne Bacon and inherited the family estates at Fenham and Newminster Abbey on the death of his elder brother John, in 1745.
In 1750 he bought the ancient Manor and estate at Whitfield, Northumberland, from the financially pressed Whitfield family. He developed lead and silver mining at Whitfield and coal mining at Benwell (which estate he bought in 1756) and at Fenham.
His eldest son, William (1752–1789), High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1777, married Eleanor Brandling of Gosforth, daughter of the Member of Parliament Charles Brandling, and William Ord MP was their son; on her husband's death she remarried Thomas Creevey.[1] His second son, Rev. James Ord (1761–1836), who inherited the Langton estates, married Barbara Brandling of Gosforth.
Referencesedit
John Hodgson, A History of Northumberland (1840) Pt 2 Vol 3
James Raine, Pedigree of Ord of Fenham, Newminster Abbey and Whitfield, p. 107 in History and Antiquities of North Durham (1852)
Notesedit
^"Ord, William (1781–1855), of Whitfield Hall, Northumb., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 29 April 2015.
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