Sir William Darell, 4th Baronet

The Reverend Sir William Darell, Bt JP
Born	William Lionel Darell (1817-02-05)5 February 1817
Died	1 June 1884(1884-06-01) (aged 67)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Spouse(s)	Mary Ford ​ ​ (m. 1840; died 1842)​ Harriet Mary Tierney ​ ​ (m. 1843; died 1873)​ Fanny Julia Braithwaite ​ ​ (m. 1880; died 1883)​
Parent(s)	Sir Harry Darell, 2nd Baronet Amelia Mary Anne Beecher
Relatives	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.[1] He was the second son of Sir Harry Darell, 2nd Baronet and Amelia Mary Anne Beecher.[2] 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).[3]

The Darell family derived its fortune from his father and grandfather's service in the East India Company in the late eighteenth century.[4] His paternal grandparents were the former Isabella Tullie and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, MP for Hedon.[5] His maternal grandfather was William Beecher of Howbury, Bedfordshire.[3][6]

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1839 and M.A. in 1842.[1]

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.[3]

Sir William served as a Magistrate for Gloucestershire and Cork.[7]

Personal life

Photograph of his granddaughter, Florence Hay (née Darell), Countess of Kinnoull, 1910

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).[7] Mary died, without issue, in 1842.[3]

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.[8] Before her death in 1873, they were the parents of:[2]

• Flora Mary Darell (c. 1844–1907), who married Edward Stopford Claremont, a son of Edward Stopford Claremont, in 1872.[9][10][11]
• Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Baronet (1845–1919), who married Helen Frances Marshland, only child of Edward Marshland of Henbury Park, Cheshire, in 1870.[12]
• Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell (1847–1898),[13] a Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Yeomanry who married Amy Schuster, daughter of Leo Schuster, in 1869. They divorced in 1878 (she married Hon. Cecil Molyneux Howard, youngest son of the 17th Earl of Suffolk) and he married Florence (née Johnson) Broadwood, widow of Thomas Broadwood of Holmbush and daughter of William Johnson, in 1882.

After his second wife's death in 1873, he married Fanny Julia (née 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.[3]

Sir William died in 1883 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Lionel.[3]

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.[3]

References

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

External links

• Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Bt (1845-1919), Landowner and army officer at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Harry Francis Colville Darell	Baronet (of Richmond Hill) 1853–1883	Succeeded by Lionel Edward Darell