Note 40 — Chapter V · EXETER 1833-1837

James Ford (1797-1877) was ordained in 1821, and became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1849. A good classical scholar, he was a voluminous writer, chiefly on religious and moral subjects. In 1825 he married Jane Frances Nagle. Their eldest daughter married Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School Days, which Richard Ford, himself a contemporary of Arnold at Winchester, reviewed in the Quarterly Review for October 1857, the last article he ever wrote.