About Sir Richard Ford
Lived 1614 – 1678 (aged 63–64). Sir Richard Ford was an English politician and merchant.
Sir Richard Ford (c. 1614 – 31 August 1678) was an English merchant and local and national politician.
He was the younger son of merchant Thomas Ford of Exeter, Devon and educated at Exeter College, Oxford and Gray's Inn.
He moved to live in Rotterdam, from where he supplied the Royalist Forces during the English Civil War. He was a member of the Merchant Adventurers by 1644, acting as governor from 1660 to 1675. He returned to England in 1652 and was a Commissioner of the East India Company (1658–1663, 1664–1665) and Deputy Governor of the Royal Adventurers in Africa Company (1663). He was knighted in 1660.
After his death in 1678, he was buried at Bexley. He had married Grace and had two sons and three daughters.
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Who was Sir Richard Ford?
British merchant and MP (1614-1678)
When was Sir Richard Ford born?
Sir Richard Ford was born in 1614.
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Sir Richard Ford died on 31 August 1678.
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Sir Richard Ford was a politician and merchant.
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Sir Richard Ford was English.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: Richard Ford (Southampton MP)
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