Charles Edward Blackett-Ord,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 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,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.
A keen amateur cricketer,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.
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