FORMERLY FELLOW OF ALL SOULS’ COLLEGE, OXFORD AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF DEAN STANLEY” “THE PSALMS IN HUMAN LIFE,” ETC. ETC. His father, Sir Richard Ford (born 1759, died 1806), a friend of William Pitt, M.P. for East Grinstead (1789), and for Appleby (1790), at one time Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, became Chief Police Magistrate at Bow Street, and the creator of the mounted police force of London. His mother (born 1767, died 1849) was the daughter of Benjamin Booth, whose wife, Jane Salwey, was the only child and heiress of Richard Salwey of the Moor, near Ludlow, in Shropshire. To Lady Ford descended the whole of the Salwey property. Herself an excellent artist, she inher…
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