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RICHARD FORD (1796-1858)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:FORD (1796-1858)  , See also:English author of one of the earliest and best of travellers' Handbooks, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Ford, who in 1789 was member of See also:parliament for See also:East Grinstead, and for many years afterwards See also:chief See also:police See also:magistrate of See also:London . His See also:mother was the daughter and heiress of See also:Benjamin See also:Booth, a distinguished connoisseur in See also:art . He was called to the See also:bar, but never practised, and in 183o-1833 he travelled in See also:Spain, spending much of his See also:time in the See also:Alhambra and at See also:Seville . His first See also:literary See also:work (other than contributions to the Quarterly See also:Review) was a pamphlet, An See also:Historical Inquiry into the Unchangeable See also:Character of a See also:War in Spain (See also:Murray, 1837), in reply to one called the Policy of See also:England towards Spain, issued under the patronage of See also:Lord See also:Palmerston . He spent the See also:winter of 1839-184o in See also:Italy, where he added largely to his collection of See also:majolica; and soon after his return he began, at See also:John Murray's invitation, to write his Handbook for Travellers in Spain, with which his name is chiefly associated . He died on the 1st of See also:September 1858, leaving a See also:fine private collection of pictures to his widow (d . 1910), his third wife, a daughter of Sir A . See also:Molesworth .

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While this entry is not substantially incorrect, it could be greatly extended by incorporating material now in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to which I contributed a new article. Ian C. Robertson.
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