Sir Lionel Darell, 5th Baronet

Captain Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Baronet JP DL (6 September 1845 – 17 February 1919) was an English landowner and soldier.

Early life Darell was born on 6 September 1845. Before his parents were married in 1843, his father had been married to Mary Ford (a daughter of Sir Francis Ford, 2nd Baronet) in 1840. Mary died in 1842. After his mother's death in 1873, his father married Fanny Julia Braithwaite (a daughter of Alfred Braithwaite) in 1880.

He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1864.

Career Upon the death of his father on 1 June 1883, he succeeded as the 5th Baronet Darell, of Ancaster House, Richmond Hill (historically in Surrey). His father had moved the family from Richmond Hill to Fretherne Court, which say on 676 acres situated in the Severn Vale between the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal and the River Severn, in Fretherne, Gloucestershire.

Sir Lionel, a longtime member of the Gloucestershire County Council and Captain in the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. He served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1887. Together, they were the parents of:

Violet Mary Darell (1871–1938), who died unmarried. who married Eleanor Marion Edwards-Heathcote, a daughter of Capt. Justinian Edwards-Heathcote, MP for North West Staffordshire, in 1903. William Harry Verelst Darell (1878–1954), a Brigadier-General who married Eva Jeffie Bainbridge, a daughter of Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge, MP for Gainsborough, in 1907. They divorced in 1930.

Descendants Through his eldest son Lionel, he was a grandfather of Margaret Eleanor Phyllis Darell (wife of Baron Helmut William Bruno Schröder of Schroders and mother to British banker and billionaire Baron Bruno Schroder),

Through his second son William, he was a grandfather of Sir William Oswald Darell, 7th Baronet, and Elizabeth Joy Darell (wife of Peter Julian Clive, a son of Sir Robert Henry Clive and Hon. Magdalen Muir Mackenzie, a daughter of the 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie).