Ford, RICHARD, F.S.A.

Ford, RICHARD, F.S.A., was born in 1796, graduated at Oxford in 1817, and was called to the bar, though he never practised. The years 1830-34 were spent in a series of long riding tours in Spain; and in 1845 appeared the first edition of his delightful Handbook for Travellers in Spain. His Gatherings from Spain (1846) is mainly made up of charming matter which want of space caused to be cut out of the second edition of the Handbook. For twenty years Ford was a contributor to the Quarterly and other reviews, and his papers on Spanish art especially are of great value. He died 1st September 1858.