* 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter ( d. 1893 )

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Ford Madox Brown self portrait 1850

Ford Madox Brown ( 16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893 ) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.

Their daughter, Catherine, married Francis Hueffer ; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.

The J D Wetherspoon pub in Oxford Road, Manchester is named after Ford Madox Brown.

It states on the Wetherspoons website that " This J D Wetherspoon pub is named after the much-travelled artist Ford Madox Brown, a one-time resident of Victoria Park, a suburb south of the pub.

Image :' Chaucer at the Court of Edward III ', oil on canvas painting by Ford Madox Brown, 1847-1851, Art Gallery of New South Wales. jpg |' Chaucer at the Court of Edward III ', oil on canvas painting by Ford Madox Brown, 1847-1851, Art Gallery of New South Wales

* Virginia Surtees ( ed ), The diary of Ford Madox Brown ( 1981, ISBN 0-300-02743-5 )

* Kenneth Bendiner, Ford Madox Brown: Il Lavoro, ( Turin: Lindau, 1991 ).

* Kenneth Bendiner, The Art of Ford Madox Brown, ( University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1998 )

* Tessa Sidey ( ed ), Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, ( 2008, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ISBN 978-1-904832-56-0 )

* Angela Thirlwell, Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown, ( 2011, Pimlico ISBN 978-1-844139-14-9 )

* Spartacus Educational: Ford Madox Brown

* Some stained glass designs by Ford Madox Brown

* Ford Madox Brown in the " History of Art "

* Photo of Ford Madox Brown's grave and a brief article about his time in Finchley

* Ford Madox Brown: PreRaphaelite Pioneer Exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery, Saturday 24 September 2011-Sunday 29 January 2012

*" The secret love of Ford Madox Brown ": essay on Ford Madox Brown and Mathilde Blind, by Angela Thirlwell, from TLS, 8 October 2008

Other singers, such as Arthur Brown, Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, Dave Terry aka Elmer Gantry, Vitamin Z's Geoff Barradale and Marmalade's Dean Ford, have recorded only once or twice with the Project.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

The band formed in 1989 when Jian Ghomeshi ( then going by Jean Ghomeshi ), Murray Foster and Mike Ford, former classmates at the local Thornlea Secondary School and playing in a pub band called The Chia Pets at the time, joined with David Matheson to busk in Toronto.

The 16th Century pub in Ford is named after The Dinton Hermit.

There is one pub in Ford, The Cross Gates, in the west part of the village.

Ford serves a rural community with only a few houses and one pub nearby, HMP Ford is about one mile south of the station.

In 1907, Henry Ford purchased just north of Manchester Street between Woodward Avenue and Oakland Street to build an automobile plant.

There was a river crossing called Snake Hill Ford across the Calder – believed to have formed part of the Roman route between Wakefield and Manchester.

Connected to the Spitfire was production of its equally important Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, Rolls-Royce's main aero engine facility was located at Derby, the need for increased output was met by building new factories in Crewe and Glasgow and using a purpose-built factory of Ford of Britain in Trafford Park Manchester.

By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber ( making cars since 1898 in Coventry ) at 2500, Rover ( Coventry car maker since 1904 ) at 1800 and Sunbeam ( producing cars since 1901 ) at 1700, with the plethora of smaller producers bringing the 1913 total up to about 16, 000 vehicles.

* Ford Madox Brown begins painting the The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall ( England ).

* Ford Madox Brown completes painting the The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall ( England ).

The building occupies a triangular site facing Albert Square and contains offices and grand ceremonial rooms such as the Great Hall which is decorated with the imposing Manchester Murals by Ford Madox Brown illustrating the history of the city.

The Manchester Murals by Ford Madox Brown, a sequence of 12 paintings depicting the history of Manchester decorate its walls.

The system was used by Frederic Leighton for " The Arts of Industry as Applied to War " at the Victoria & Albert Museum ( 1870-72 ) and by Ford Madox Brown on the Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall ( 1879-93 ).

Ford received a BA degree in economics from the Victoria University of Manchester and was president of the university's students ' union from 1966 to 1967.

Glyn Ford ( born 28 January 1950 in Gloucester ) was a member of the European Parliament ( 1984 – 2009 ) initially for Greater Manchester East, until 1999 and then South West England for the Labour Party and Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party.

While at Manchester University Ford was a ' Mombusho ' Visiting Professor at Tokyo University.

The surviving cabin crew ( Arthur Bradbury and Joanna Toff ) and two members of the Manchester Airport Fire Service were awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for their individual bravery, and the two flight attendants who died in the incident ( Sharon Ford and Jacqui Ubanski ) were also awarded the same honour posthumously for their devotion to duty and bravery.

Also, in the 1920s, Ford ( with the Model T in Manchester, England ), General Motors ( who took over Opel in Germany and Vauxhall in Britain ), expanded into Europe.

* Haslam, Sara, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel, and the Great War ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002 ).

Ford Motor Co. engineer Roy Lunn was sent to England ; he had designed the mid-engined Mustang I concept car powered by a 1. 7 litre V4.

The first " Ford GT " the GT / 101 was unveiled in England on April 1 and soon after exhibited in New York.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

* John Ford ( bishop ) ( born 1952 ), English curate, chaplain and diocesan missioner who rose through Church of England hierarchy to become Bishop of Plymouth in 2006

* John Ford Coley ( born 1948 ), American pianist, guitarist, actor and author ; one-half of 1970 – 80 acoustic act, England Dan & John Ford Coley

He was forced to emigrate to Australia in 1852 ( inspiring the painting The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown ), but after a year he returned to Britain, soon establishing himself as both a sculptor and art-dealer.

In 1981, Senna moved to England to begin single-seater racing, winning the RAC and Townsend-Thoreson Formula Ford 1600 Championships that year with the Van Diemen team.

Before leaving England, however, Senna was offered a drive with a Formula Ford 2000 team for £ 10, 000.

The Last of England ( painting ) | The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown, depicting emigrants leaving England

Ford Park Cemetery is a cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848.

This, along with record-breaking transfer fees to secure the services of Len Shackleton and Welsh international Trevor Ford, led to a contemporary nickname, the " Bank of England ".

The AC Cobra was a financial failure that led Ford and Carroll Shelby to discontinue importing cars from England in 1967.

In Ford Madox Ford's trilogy of historical novels, The Fifth Queen, the character Magister Nicholas Udal is a decidedly heterosexual profligate, who serves as Latin tutor to Mary I of England and Henry VIII's " fifth queen ," Katharine Howard.

All the rally cars are built, prepared and run for Ford by M-Sport, the motorsport team based in Cockermouth, Cumbria in Northern England.

Ronnie James and guitarist Troy Gonyea from The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Marc Ford from The Black Crowes toured, to considerable acclaim, with him in England in 2009, with the addition of Darian Gray on drums, as part of the promotion of Potato Hole.

Eight months after the battle of the Yellow Ford, a new lord lieutenant, the Earl of Essex, landed in Ireland with the largest expeditionary force ever sent there from England ( 17, 000 troops ).

A town in Dorset, England, about which Ford Prefect wrote a baroque fiction that caused it to be visited by a giant mute robot.

Guildford, a town in southeastern England, is where Ford Prefect usually claimed to be from, as opposed to Betelgeuse, which is where he was actually from.

Domestic versions for England came equipped with Ford or Mercury flatheads, some of which were equipped with ARDUN overhead valve hemi heads, a modification designed by Zora ARkus DUNTov, who also later raced for the factory Allard team at Le Mans.

Eaton Ford is a district of St Neots and is in Cambridgeshire, England.