Sir William Darell, 4th Baronet explained

Honorific Prefix:The Reverend
Sir William Darell, Bt
Honorific Suffix:JP
Birth Name:William Lionel Darell
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Parents:Sir Harry Darell, 2nd Baronet
Amelia Mary Anne Beecher
Spouse:

Relations:Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet (grandfather)

The Reverend Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th Baronet JP (5 February 1817 – 1 June 1883), was an English clergyman who served as rector of Fretherne.

Early life

Darell was born on 5 February 1817. He was the second son of Sir Harry Darell, 2nd Baronet and Amelia Mary Anne Beecher. Among his siblings were Sir Harry Darell, 3rd Baronet, brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the 7th Dragoon Guards, Emily Mary Darell (wife of the Rev. Anthony Berwick Lechmere, son of Sir Anthony Lechmere, 1st Baronet), Isabella Martha Darell (wife of Henry Shirley of Peppingford Lodge, Sussex), and Eliza Anne Darell (wife of Henry Brown of the Bombay Civil Service).

The Darell family derived its fortune from his father and grandfather's service in the East India Company in the late eighteenth century.[1] His paternal grandparents were the former Isabella Tullie and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, MP for Hedon.[2] His maternal grandfather was William Beecher of Howbury, Bedfordshire.[3]

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1839 and M.A. in 1842.[4]

Career

The Rector at Fretherne in Gloucestershire from 1844, he succeeded as the 4th Baronet Darell, of Ancaster House, Richmond Hill (historically in Surrey) upon the death of his unmarried elder brother, Harry Francis Colville Darell on 6 January 1853.

Sir William served as a Magistrate for Gloucestershire and Cork.[5]

Personal life

On 28 January 1840, Darell was married to Mary Ford (d. 1842), eldest daughter of Sir Francis Ford, 2nd Baronet and Eliza Brady (a daughter of Henry Brady of County Limerick, Ireland).[5] Mary died, without issue, in 1842.

His second marriage was on 18 April 1843 to Harriet Mary Tierney (d. 1873), daughter of Sir Edward Tierney, 2nd Baronet. Her father gave them Fretherne Court, which Sir Edward had completely transmogrified from a humble refectory into a lavish country seat with many reception rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, water towers and halls, and a chapel just inside the front entrance hall.[6] Before her death in 1873, they were the parents of:[7]

After his second wife's death in 1873, he married Fanny Julia (Braithwaite) Clarke (d. 1894) on 7 January 1880 at St George's, Hanover Square. The widow of Tanner Owen Clarke (a son of Edward Hyde Clarke), she was a daughter of Alfred Braithwaite and Elizabeth Fuller.

Sir William died in 1883 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Lionel.

Descendants

Through his younger son Edward, he was a grandfather of Florence Mary Darell, who became the Countess of Kinnoull upon her marriage to Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smith . E. A. . DARELL, Lionel (1742-1803), of Richmond Hill, Surr. . www.historyofparliamentonline.org . . 25 July 2024.
  2. Book: Betham . William . The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings . 1804 . Miller . 296 . 25 July 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Naylor . Leonard . Jaggar . Geoffrey . BEECHER, Sir William (1628-94), of Howbury, Renhold, Beds. . www.historyofparliamentonline.org . . 26 July 2024.
  4. Book: Cokayne . George Edward . Complete Baronetage: Volume V . 1 January 1900 . Dalcassian Publishing Company . 299 . 25 July 2024 . en.
  5. Book: Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage and Knightage (and Companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . 1880 . 120 . 26 July 2024 . en.
  6. Book: Darell . Sir Lionel Edward Hamilton Marmaduke . Ratcatcher Baronet. The Memoirs of Sir Lionel Darell, Bart., D.S.O. Edited by Michael Shephard. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]. ]. 1952 . Sir Joseph Causton & Sons . 26 July 2024 . en.
  7. Book: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire . 1911 . Burke's Peerage Limited. . 542 . 25 July 2024 . en.
  8. Book: Office . Great Britain Foreign . The Foreign Office List . 1866 . Harrison & Sons . 21 . 24 July 2024 . en.
  9. Book: Howard . Joseph Jackson . Visitation of England and Wales . 1909 . Priv. print. . 66 . 24 July 2024 . en.
  10. Obituary Notices: Mrs. Claremont. Gloucestershire Chronicle, Page 4Saturday, 2 March 1907.
  11. Book: Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage . 1920 . Kelly's Directories . 198 . 25 July 2024 . en.
  12. Web site: Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell (1847-1898), Army officer; son of Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th Bt . www.npg.org.uk . . 26 July 2024.
  13. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1030.