James Ford (translator)
James Ford (1797–1877) was an English cleric, known as a translator of Dante.
Life
[edit]He was the son of Sir Richard Ford, police magistrate in London and Member of Parliament, and his wife Marianne Booth, an artist and daughter of Benjamin Booth; Richard Ford (1796–1858) was his elder brother. He was educated at Rugby School, and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in 1814, graduating B.A. in 1818, and M.A. in 1821.[1][2][3]
James was a prebendary of Exeter Cathedral from 1849 to 1877.[2]
Works
[edit]Ford as a poet published:[2]
- Thoughts in Verse on Private Prayer and The Publick Worship (1867)
- More Thoughts in Verse (1877)
The Inferno, the first part of Ford's Dante translation, appeared in 1865.[4] The completed English verse translation was published in 1870.[5]
Family
[edit]In 1825, when Ford had a living in Northampton, he married Jane Frances Nagle, daughter of Edward Nagle.[2][6] Their daughter Anne Frances (c.1826–1910) married Thomas Hughes in 1847.[7] In 1848 her sister Marianne married the banker Edward Andrew Sanders.[8] The eldest son James Edward entered Rugby School in 1849 aged 13; his younger brother Edmund Salwey entered the school at the same age, in 1852.[9][10]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sparrow, Elizabeth. "Ford, Sir Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55175. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c d Reilly, Catherine (2000). Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879. A&C Black. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7201-2318-0.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Gragnolati, Manuele; Lombardi, Elena; Southerden, Francesca (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Dante. Oxford University Press. p. 590. ISBN 978-0-19-882074-1.
- ^ Alighieri, Dante (1870). The Divina commedia, tr. into Engl. verse by J. Ford. London.: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Cave, Edward (1825). The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. Printed and sold at St John's Gate [by Edward Cave]; by F. Jefferies in Ludgate-Street. p. 365.
- ^ Mitchell, Charlotte. "Hughes, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14091. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Walford, Edward (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. R. Hardwicke. p. 855.
- ^ Michell, Arthur Tompson (1901–1904). Rugby School register. p. 84.
- ^ Michell, Arthur Tompson (1901–1904). Rugby School register. p. 119.
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