Sir William Darell, 4th Baronet

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. His paternal grandparents were the former Isabella Tullie and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, MP for Hedon. His maternal grandfather was William Beecher of Howbury, Bedfordshire.

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

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.

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). Before her death in 1873, they were the parents of:

Flora Mary Darell (–1907), who married Edward Stopford Claremont, a son of Edward Stopford Claremont, in 1872. Sir Lionel Edward Darell, 5th Baronet (1845–1919), who married Helen Frances Marshland, only child of Edward Marshland of Henbury Park, Cheshire, in 1870. Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell (1847–1898), 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 ( 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 ( 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.