I UNDERSTAND that Captain Robert Ford, a Warden of the Hull Trinity House, and Mrs Ford, have left Dover in the Royal Netherlands steamer Crynssen for a voyage to the West Indies, ports on the north coast of South America, and the Panama Canal. The voyage will take about two months. »
DR A. M. SEGERDAL AND MISS VERA FORD St. Jude’s Church, Spring-bank, was the scene of a pretty wedding this afternoon, when the marriage of Dr Alexander McMonagle Segerdal, of Leicester, son of Mr and Mrs Segerdal, of Belfast, and Miss Vera Ford, daughter of Captain and Mrs R. Ford, of Sunny Bank, Hull, was solemnised by the Rev. A. Lea, M.A., of Leicester, assisted by the Vicar, the Rev A. ... »
Organised by the Royal Naval Division Association, a party of survivors of the Gallipoli campaign and their friends, left on the Duchess of Richmond last Friday for a cruise to the scene of those disastrous operations. I learn that among the passenger list there are several local names, among them being Captain and Mrs R. Ford. Captain Ford is an elder brother of Hull Trinity House, and a member o... »
The funeral took place yesterday of Mr Ernest Stanley Hepton, head of the firm of W. Townhill and Hepton, consulting and marine surveyors, of Hull. Mr Hepton, who was 68 years of age, resided at “Red Gables,” Beverley-road, Anlaby. He was a member of the Wilberforce Masonic Lodge and was well known on the Hull Fish Dock. His youngest son, Eric, was killed on active service in the Middl... »
THE WARDENS, BRETHREN AND OFFICERS of the Corporation of the Trinity House of Kingston-Upon-Hull, 1935.—Left to right (back row): Captain Z. C. Pearson, Captain H. Montgomery, Captain R. L. Biggins, Captain S. R. M. Tyrer, Captain C. Barron. Middle row: Mr P. J. Walkington (warden’s clerk), Captain J.T. Cawthorn, Captain R. Ford, Captain G. E. Wood, Captain R. E. Tether, Captain W. A. Morris... »
Robert Ford of Hull, born 1866 and eight years old, nursed an overriding ambition. Steam. His father, another Robert, sailing his own brig coastwise out of the Humber, argued that steam was a passing fad. “Stands to reason, son. Who’d charter a vessel half full of mucky coal before a ton of cargo can be put aboard? The cost of coal alone would send freight charges sky high. Owners will... »
Robert Ford was born on 23 January 1826 in Beverley, Yorkshire – the fourth son of John Ford and Mary Hamilton of Hull. In 1834, he went to sea as a cabin boy and received his merchant seamen ticket 11 years later. According to this document, he was living in Hull, was 5′ 7″ tall, had dark brown hair, dark complexion and hazel eyes. In 1849, aged 23, Robert married 18-year-old Sarah An... »