ED 177
Reference code
ED 177
Title
Papers of Richard Lionel Ford
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
Richard Lionel Ford (1908-1924) was the third son of Lionel Ford Bridges Justice Ford (1865-1932), Head Master successively of Repton and Harrow, and from 1925 Dean of York, and of his wife Mary Catherine (May), daughter of Edward Talbot (1844-1934), Bishop of Winchester and the Hon. Lavinia Lyttelton.
Richard came to Eton as a King's Scholar in 1921, establishing himself as a Rackets and Fives player and as a cricketer, but died in 1924, the day before his sixteenth birthday. He was buried at Eton after a service in Lower Chapel and his parents subsequently published a memoir of him. They deliberately sought memories of him for publication, and these are included amongst these papers.
Date
1908 - 1924
Extent & medium
1 item
Content description
Letters to his parents from Eton and elsewhere; letters from his father; reports; letters of congratulations on his scholarship; letters of condolence on his death; drafts of the memoir; photographs
Provenance
Presented by his younger brother, Edward.
Arrangement
Some sorting was done by his mother and the division of letters reflect her arrangement.
Associated material
MEL 648 - ribboned list
Finding aids
See hard copy list in Eton file
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Number 177 of 553 at this Level
Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Letters from Richard Ford to his parents from preparatory school, ED 177 01, (c.1912 - 1921)
- Letters from Richard Ford to his parents while at Eton, ED 177 02, (1921 - 1924)
- Postcards from Richard Ford to his parents, ED 177 03, (April 1917 - May 1924)
- Copies of letters to Mr and Mrs Burrowes, ED 177 04, (1923 - 1924)
- Letters of congratulations on Richard Ford's Eton scholarship, ED 177 05, (1921)
- Letters from Lionel Ford to Arthur Ford, ED 177 06, (1920 - 1921)
- Reports, ED 177 07, (1916 - 1924)
- Confirmation preparation, ED 177 08, (1922)
- Letters to Richard Ford from his father, ED 177 09, (1915 - 1924)
- Letters of condolence to Richard's parents, ED 177 10, (1924 - 1925)
- Letters from Lionel Ford, ED 177 11, (1924)
- Doctors' notes on Richard Ford's illness, ED 177 12, (1924)
- Papers relating to Richard Ford's estate, ED 177 13, (1924 - 1925)
- Sermon preached in Harrow School Chapel by Lionel Ford, ED 177 14, (20 September 1924)
- Papers concerning memorials, ED 177 15, (1924 - 1926)
- Notes on Richard Ford by his parents and others, ED 177 16, ([1924])
- Draft by Lionel Ford of the memoir of Richard Ford, ED 177 17, ([1924])
- Press cuttings on the death of Richard Ford, ED 177 18, (5 September 1924)
- Photographs of Richard Ford, ED 177 19, ([1924])
- Letters to Lionel and May Ford from their children, ED 177 20, (1924 - 1925)
- Letters to Lionel and May Ford, ED 177 21, (1917 - 1918)