He inherited estates and coal and lead mining interests at Whitfield, Northumberland on the death of his father.
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His youngest son, Rev John Alexander Blackett (1803-1865), in 1855 inherited the Whitfield, Northumberland estates of his wife's uncle, William Ord, and changed his name to Blackett-Ord.