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.
Anthony Berwick Lechmere, son of Sir Anthony Lechmere, 1st Baronet), Isabella Martha Darell (wife of Henry Shirley of Peppingford Lodge, Sussex), and Eliza Anne Darell (wife of Henry Brown of the Bombay Civil Service).
[3] The Darell family derived its fortune from his father and grandfather's service in the East India Company in the late eighteenth century.
[4] His paternal grandparents were the former Isabella Tullie and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, MP for Hedon.
Her father gave them Fretherne Court, which Sir Edward had completely transmogrified from a humble refectory into a lavish country seat with many reception rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, water towers and halls, and a chapel just inside the front entrance hall.