Sir Patrick Johnstone Ford, 1st Baronet (5 March 1880 – 28 September 1945)
[ at Leigh Rayment's peerage pages] was a
Scottish Unionist Party politician.
From around 1905 he was the main artistic patron of
Patrick Adam.
For fought
Edinburgh East as a
Liberal Unionist at a
by-election in 1909 and at the
first general election of 1910, being defeated both times by the Liberal candidate in a straight fight.
Ford was elected as
member of parliament (MP) for
Edinburgh North on his first attempt, at
a by-election in 1920.
He was re-elected in
1922 general election, but was defeated in
1923
Events
January–February
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by the
Liberal Party candidate
Peter Raffan
Peter Wilson Raffan (1863 – 23 June 1940) was a British Liberal politician.
Raffan came from Newbridge, Monmouthshire, and in 1910 was chairman of the Monmouthshire County Council. When a general election was called in January 1910, P W Raf ...
. He regained the seat at the
1924 general election, and held it until he stepped down at the
1935 general election.
Ford was made a
Knight Bachelor in the
1926 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1926 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 29 December 1925.
The recipients of honours are displayed here ...
, as well as being made a
baronet of Westerdunes in the
County of East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the his ...
on 27 July 1929.
He was appointed
Honorary Colonel of the
Forth Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, on 26 June 1926.
[''Army List''.]
He is buried with his wife and son near the centre of
Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on ...
in
Edinburgh.
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1880 births
1945 deaths
Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1931–1935
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies
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