Clare Ford

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Sir Francis Clare Ford, in La Ilustración Española y Americana.

Sir Francis Clare Ford Template:Postnominals (4 June 1828[1] – 31 January 1899) was an English diplomat from London.[2]

Ford was born at 32 Upper Brook Street, London, the son of writer Richard Ford and his wife, Harriet.[3] He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th Light Dragoons. He left the army in 1851 and entered the diplomatic service, becoming Secretary of Legation at Washington, D.C., where he was acting chargé d'affaires in 1867–1868. In 1871, he was appointed Secretary of Embassy at St Petersburg and in 1872, was transferred to Vienna. He represented the British government in 1875–77 at Halifax before the Halifax Fisheries Commission, by decision of which $5,500,000 was awarded to Great Britain for superior advantages obtained by the United States in the Washington fisheries treaty of 1871. In 1878–1879 he was Minister to the Argentine Republic and during a portion of the time to Uruguay also.

Ford was afterward appointed to similar posts at Rio de Janeiro and at Athens. In 1884 he became Minister (from 1887 Ambassador) to Spain; there, he acted as British commissioner in Paris in 1884 and 1885 to settle the Newfoundland fisheries question. In 1892, he was transferred to the Ottoman Empire and in 1893 to Italy. His services to British diplomacy won for him frequent official recognition, including appointment to the Privy Council in 1888.[4]

Dead in Paris, he is buried in the cimetière de l'Ouest (Boulogne-Billancourt).

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  • FORD, Rt Hon. Sir (Francis) Clare, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 20 June 2012
  • Sir Francis Clare Ford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. (obituary), The Times, London, 1 February 1899, page 6
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Diplomatic posts
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentina
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General to Uruguay
1879 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Spain
(Ambassador to Spain from 1887)
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Ambassador to Italy
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