Edward Ord [SEP] educated at
Cumberland, Maryland, the son of James and Rebecca Ord. Family tradition made James Ord the illegitimate son of George IV of England and Maria Fitzherbert but he seems likely to have been the son of Ralph Ord, who was baptised at Wapping, Middlesex, in 1757, the son of John Ord, a factor (agent) from Berwick-upon-Tweed. Edward Ord was considered a mathematical genius and was appointed to the United States Military Academy by President Andrew Jackson. His roommate at West Point was future general William
Charles Blackett-Ord
Charles Edward Blackett-Ord, DD (16 September 1858 – 16 July 1931) was Archdeacon of Northumberland from 1917 to 1931.
Born in Grosvenor Square, London into an ecclesiastical family on 16 September 1858, Blackett-Ord was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1882 and priest the following year and began his career with curacies in South Shields and Ryton. He held incumbencies at Ovingham, Newburn, Stamfordham and Rothbury before his Archdeacon’s appointment