Background
The second son of Edward Fordham (1721-1778) of Therfield in Hertfordshire and his wife Mary Carter (1722-1798) he moved to Royston, the nearby town, while still a young manitoba
The second son of Edward Fordham (1721-1778) of Therfield in Hertfordshire and his wife Mary Carter (1722-1798) he moved to Royston, the nearby town, while still a young manitoba
In early life he worked as a woolcomber and stapler. The family concern was brewing. Peter Mathias considers the practical operation of duties on maltsters and brewers made a step into finance, from retaining duty on malt, a natural one.
Though the Fordham family was one of only a handful who made lieutenant
Fordham himself was in brewing. lieutenant was however another Edward King Fordham (1810–1889) who in 1839 constructed a larger brewery at Ashwell.
He then built it up, attaching many pubs as tied houses, and it became the largest brewery in the area. lieutenant was sold to Greene King in 1953.
In early 1822 a meeting was held to consider rural distress, and participants included Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre, a Hertfordshire Whig Member of Parliament to 1819, and William Lamb, then sitting as Member of Parliament. In bitter exchanges, George Fordham required Lamb to strengthen a reform petition proposed by Dacre, by an amendment.
Lamb declined to be instructed. And George"s brother Edward made an ad hominem attack on Lamb. Sir John Sebright, the other sitting Member of Parliament, also refused to be treated as a delegate.
From 1833 to shortly after Fordham"s death, the minister at Royston"s Unitarian chapel was Archibald Forbes Macdonald (1808–1886).
Ruston believes that, almost certainly, Fordham was his major source of income. He was later known as an "advanced Radical".
A marble tablet to them was placed in Kelshall church. Fordham also bought property at Sandon, Hertfordshire, some acquired via Elias.
Fordham"s sister Elizabeth (1765-1846) married Richard Flower the brewer, brother of Benjamin Flower.
Edward Fordham Flower was therefore Edward King Fordham"s nephew. The younger Edward King Fordham of the later 19th century was a great-nephew.
Edward King Fordham intervened, explaining that he concurred with the amendment, but also with Dacre"s view that it should be withdrawn.