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health broke down from over work, and he went abroad with his 

 wife and two daughters to Geneva, and the following winter to 

 Pisa, where he took the service at the English Church. On re- 

 turning to England he took for some months a curacy at Canter- 

 bury, and afterward went to Exeter as curate of St. Lawrence, 

 1831-33, and was chaplain of the Devon and Exeter Hospital, 

 1834-35, chaplain of the Livery Dole Almshouses, Heavitree, 

 1835-37. At this time his cousin, Dr. Goodenough, Dean of 

 Wells, presented him to the living of Combe St. Nicholas, Somer- 

 set, 1837-40, when he was obliged to resign it from ill health. 

 He was appointed a Prebendary of Exeter by Bishop Phillpotts 

 in 1849 ; in 1850 became vicar of St. Mary Church, Devon, which 

 he resigned in 1851, and resigned his Prebend's Stall in 1872, 

 from ill health, and died at Stanley YiUa, Weston, Bath, 18th 

 February, 1877, in the 80th year of his age. 



The Pev. Prebendary Ford was an accomplished scholar, with 

 a large and generous heart, and the parts of Cornwall where his 

 property was situated largely partook of his charities. 



Although the late Prebend became a member of the Royal 

 Institution of Cornwall in 1861, he was too much occupied in 

 works on Theology to have time to contribute to our Journal. 

 But the town of Truro possesses good proof of his liberality and 

 of his interest in Cornwall, from the present of the large addi- 

 tion of books which he made to the Bishop's Library in this town, 

 in 1872, and which will ever be associated with his name. 



The Eev. James Ford was the author of numerous theological 

 works. 



1 . The gospel St. Matthew, illustrated from ancient and modern 



authors, 8vo, 1848. 



2. The gospel of St. Mark, ditto, 8vo, 1849. 



3. ,, St. Luke, ,, „ 1851. 



4. „ St. John, ,, ,, 1852. 



5. Sermon — Holy Communion at a Visitation, 1851. 



6. Book rhymes, or the order of Morning prayer explained in 



verse, 1853. 



7. The Acts of the Apostles, illustrated, 1856. 



8. Sermons by P. Segneri (translated) 1857. 



9. Steps to the Sanctuary, or the order of morning prayer ex- 



plained in verse, 1858. 



