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superintend tlie erection of the bridge. The scheme, however, 

 then failed, and the chains were sold to the Hnngerford Bridge 

 Company, and Hocking was sent to London, and under the di- 

 rection of Brunell he superintended for the Copper-house Co. 

 the erection of that Bridge. (It is a curious fact that when the 

 Railway Co. bought Hungerford Bridge and Market, they sold 

 back to the Clifton Co. the Hungerford chains, and these now 

 form the suspendors of Clifton Bridge.) 



Mr. Hocking was appointed the London agent for the Copper- 

 house Co., and for them he superintended the erection of the 

 pumping engines at Old Ford, at Brentford, at Battersea, and at 

 the Croydon Water works. He also put up the fine pumping 

 engine at Leek in Staffordshire, and some others. When after 

 years of success the Copper-house Co. was brought to a close, the 

 services of Mr. Hocking were secured by Messrs, Bickford Smith 

 and Davey in the construction of machinery for their safety-fuse 

 manufactories in Cornwall, in Lancashire, in France, in Prussia, 

 in Spain, and in America. This necessarily required much 

 travelling, and for many years he was almost constantly abroad. 

 Like many men of ability he was very retiring in his habits, so 

 that the extent of his knowledge and the goodness of his heart, 

 were but imperfectly known. Mr. Hocking died suddenly of 

 apoplexy, aged 7 1 , at his residence of Hosewarne, on Friday, 1 6th 

 February, 1877. 



The late Eev. James Ford was a younger son of Sir Eichard 

 Ford, chief police magistrate of Bow street and Urxler-secretary 

 of the Home-office, and a younger brother of Mr. Kichard 

 Ford, the well-known author of the "Handbook to Spain," and 

 was the father-in-law of Mr. Thomas Hughes (the author of 

 ''Tom Brown"), who married his eldest daughter Fanny in 

 1846. 



The Eev. James Ford was born in 1797, and was educated at 

 Eugby and Oriel College, Oxford. He took his B.A. degree in 

 1818, and M.A. in 1821. Was ordained a deacon in 1822, and 

 a priest in 1823, by Dr. Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough. From 

 1822 to 1824 he was curate of St. Peter with Upton rectories, 

 Northampton, and of St. Giles in the same county, and Chaplain 

 of the General Infirmary in the county town, from 1824 to 1827. 

 About this time he married Jane Frances, daughter of Edward 

 James Nayle and Anne Cranmer Beauchamp. Soon after his 



