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