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His body was brought over from Ireland, where he 

 had died Sep. 3, and buried at Harting Oct. 15, 1670.* 



The grandson of Sir Edward Ford was still more 

 famous in English History than his grandfather for 

 brilliant talents, high station and leadership, but lacked 

 his grandsire's honest name. Though Lord Macaulay 

 has softened some of the more repulsive features of 

 his character, and said at least something in reply to 

 the bitter and contemptuous invective of Fox (C. J.), 

 yet no one can make a hero of Ford, Lord Grey. 

 Perhaps the best palliation that can be offered is that 

 the worst crime of his life, his incestuous intrigue with 

 his sister-in-law Henrietta or Harriet Berkeley, aged 

 1 8, was committed when he was but 27 years of age, 

 and that he suffered for it during most of the remain- 

 der of his 47 years, near the average term of the short 

 lived Fords. But if we excuse Ford Lord Grey, on 



The following is a list of Sir Edward Ford's schemes, or 

 such at least as have been handed down. They are sufficiently 

 varied to denote the extensive range of his scientific obser- 

 vations. 



Under Charles I. : I. River to be brought from Rickmans- 



worth, Hertfordshire, to St. Giles' in 



the Fields, near London. London : 



1641. 4to. 



Under Cromwell : 2. Raising Thames water to higher streets 



of City. 1656. 



3. Engine at Somerset House for Strand. 

 Under Charles II. : 4. A defence of Bill Credit. 1663. 



5. Cure of Smoky Chimneys. 1664. 



6. Method of Coining Copper Money, for 



which he had a patent for Ireland. 

 1664. 



7. Experimental proposals for collection 



of the King's revenue and rebuilding 

 of London. 1666. (Hugh James 

 Rose, Biographical Diet., 1848.) 



It may be noted here that there are strong grounds for 

 believing that the water engine, which by an overshot wheel 

 throws water from a pond near South Gardens, at the base of 

 South Harting Hills, to Up Park, was Sir Edward Ford's work 

 perhaps a design posthumously executed. 



