| Authorised form of name | Ford; Sir; Henry (1617 - 1684); politician |
| Dates | 1617 - 1684 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 19 January 1617 |
| Place of death | His house, Nutwell Court, Woodbury, near Exeter, Devon, England, Europe |
| DatesAndPlaces | Baptism:
Littleham, Devon, England, Europe (19 January 1617)
Burial:
Woodbury Church, Devon, England, Europe (12 September 1684) |
| Occupation | politician |
| Activity | Education:
Exeter College, Oxford (matriculated 1634)
Career:
Deputy-Lieutenant of Devon (1676-death); MP for Lostwithiel (1660); MP for Tiverton (1664-1681); Secretary to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1669-1670, 1672-1673); Commissioner for Sick and Wounded (1672-1674)
Honours:
Kt 1672
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/07/1663 |
| Proposer | Sir James Long |
| Date of ejection or withdrawal | 09/08/1682 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Committee for Agriculture [Georgical] (1664) |
| Other Royal Society activity | Placed on the list of Fellows to be left out due to non-payment of arrears |
| Relationships | Parents: Henry Ford and Catherine Sprathayes
Married: Eleanor Rowe |
| OtherInfo | Although he took no active part in the Civil Wars, Ford was a royalist supporter and was appointed to the commission of the peace at Oxford in 1644. From the late 1650s, he was a member of the Rota Club, a London debating society which also counted men such as John Aubrey (FRS 1663), Sir John Hoskyns (FRS 1663), William Croone (FRS 1663) and Samuel Pepys (FRS 1665) amongst its members. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Foster; Hunter; Henning; ODNB
Notes:
Hunter gives his year of birth as 1617. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/35875739 |
| Code | NA5609 |