Arthur Humphreys Foord

Arthur Humphreys Foord (14 September 1844 – 12 August 1933) was a British palaeontologist and scientific illustrator.

Life and family Arthur Humphreys Foord was born, with his twin brother Alfred Stanley Foord, in Brixton, Surrey on 14 September 1844. His parents were Sarah Stanley Hooper and John Bromley Foord. He had three older brothers, including his twin. His father was secretary to the General Mining Association of Nova Scotia in London. He attended a preparatory school from 1853 to 1856, when he entered Chatham House School, Ramsgate, Kent in 1857.

Foord married Ida Franziska Adelheid Kuhlmeyer (1842–1916) on 2 April 1896 in Dublin. He moved back in England in 1930, settling in Red Cottage, Hove Street, Hove, Sussex. He died there on 12 August 1933.