Background
Ford was the son of Thomas Ford, prebendary of Saint Decuman, Wells, and vicar of Banwell and of Wookey, Somersetshire, who died 29 August of the same year.
Ford was the son of Thomas Ford, prebendary of Saint Decuman, Wells, and vicar of Banwell and of Wookey, Somersetshire, who died 29 August of the same year.
He received his medical training under Doctor John Ford, then in practice at Bristol. In 1780 he was appointed surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, which office he resigned, after more than twenty years" service, on 16 July 1801. At this time, the finances of the charity being very low, Ford generously presented it with the arrears of his salary, amounting altogether to four hundred guineas, and his example was followed by the physicians to the institution, Doctorates
Foart Simmons and Robert Bland.
He died 15 September 1809 at Sherborne, Dorset, when on his way from Weymouth to Bath. He was twice married.
At an early age he settled as a surgeon in London, was admitted a member of the court of assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons, acquired an excellent practice, and was greatly liked.