Craven Ord

Ord's support was acknowledged by John Nichols, by Gideon Algernon Mantell, and by George Ormerod in their county histories (respectively of Leicestershire, Surrey, and Cheshire).

His method of obtaining impressions of brasses involved: French paper kept damp in a specially prepared case; printer's ink; and rags.

His collection of impressions of brasses, bound in two volumes, in deal boards over six feet in height, was purchased by Thorpe the bookseller in 1830.

[2] 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 Suffolk collections in twenty folio volumes went to Thorpe and then the British Museum, with a series of illustrative drawings.

The collections of Francis Douce and of Sir Thomas Phillipps were substantially built up from Ord's sale.