Background
The younger son of Harry Ord, of the king"s remembrancer"s office, by Anne, daughter of Francis Hutchinson of Barnard Castle, County Durham, he was born in London in 1756. His uncle, Robert Ord, was Chief Baron of the Scottish Exchequer.
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Career
He was particularly noted for his brass rubbings. Ord was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 January 1775, and of the Royal Society on 3 May 1787. He was for several years vice-president of the Society of Antiquaries.
Ord"s library was mostly dispersed in June 1829, on the occasion of his leaving England for the sake of his health.
At the same time was sold some of his historical manuscripts. His Registrum de Bury, temporary
Edward III was purchased by Frederic Madden for £126, and his Liber Garderobæ ab anno 18 Edward II ad annum 15 Edward III by Thorpe for £110 15s.
His Suffolk collections in twenty folio volumes went to Thorpe and then the British Museum, with a series of illustrative drawings.
He had acquired drawings by Robert Hawes and Isaac Johnson. A second sale of Ord"s manuscripts took place in January 1830, when many small ancient deeds were sold in bags. Many of them had previously belonged to Thomas Martin the Thetford antiquary, and were acquired by Ord for a few shillings.
The collections of Francis Douce and of Sir Thomas Phillipps were substantially built up from Ord"s sale.
The remainder of his library was sold after his death, in May 1832. At the sale John Gage bought a monumental brass that had been in Gorleston church, and returned lieutenant
Ord married, in June 1784, Mary Smith, daughter of John Redman of Greenstead Hall, Essex, by whom he had five sons:
Major Robert Hutchinson Ord, Knight of Hanover, of the Royal Artillery, who married in 1817 Elizabeth Blagrave, a sister of Margaret;
Captain William Redman Ord of the Royal Engineers;
John Ord, Doctor of Medicine, of Hertford;
Captain Harry Gough Ord, father of Sir Harry Saint George Ord. There was one daughter, Harriot Mary, who married in 1815 Review
George Hughes.
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Royal Society.
