William Ord of Fenham

Who was William Ord of Fenham?

William Ord was an English land and mine owner.

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 1746 he married Anne Dillingham, heiress to estates at West Langton and East Langton, Leicestershire.

Ord was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1747, and in that year received the Freedom of the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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 and at Fenham.

His eldest son, William, High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1777, married Eleanor Brandling of Gosforth who on his death remarried Thomas Creevey.

His second son, Rev James Ord, who inherited the Langton estates, married Barbara Brandling of Gosforth.