James Edward Ford (6 February 1836 – 11 March 1877) was an English first-class

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. The son of the Reverend James Ford, he was born at Heavitree near

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

and was educated at Rugby School. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Kent at

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in 1857. In the same year he made two further first-class appearances, playing for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex at

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, and for the MCC against

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. He died at Hastings in March 1877.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, James 1836 births 1877 deaths Cricketers from Exeter People educated at Rugby School English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers