Dictionary of national biography. Supplement Volume 2 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... fisheries dispute, a subject which he had studied with minute care. Unfortunately the conventions which he drew up, and in which he got his French fellow-commissioners to concur, were never carried out. He was more successful in the negotiations which terminated with the signature of the Anglo-Spanish commercial convention of 20 April 1886. For these services he was made a G.C.M.G. in 1886, was sworn a privy councillor on 10 Aug. 1888, and promoted G.C.B. on 29 April 1889. In January 1892 he was transferred from Madrid to Constantinople. The promotion was unsought by Ford, who soon found himself unequal to the strain of a position so difficult, and in December 1893 he procured his transference to Rome, where he remained until he was superannuated in 1898. lie received the Jubilee medal in 1897. He died at Paris on 31 Jan. 1899. His bedside was attended by his son, John Gorman Ford, who was nominated an attache-on 16 Feb. 1892, and became third secretary of the embassy at Rome on 8 Feb. 1897. Times, 1 Feb. 1899; Foreign Office List; Men of the Time, 13th ed.; Camden Pratt"s People of the Period, i. 402; Fraser"s Magazine, October 1858. T. S. FORSTER or FOSTER, Sir JOHN (1520P-1602), warden of the marches, born about 1520, was son of Sir Thomas Forster (d. 1527) of Etherston, Northumberland, marshal of Berwick, and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Robert, fourth baron Ogle. Trained from early youth in the methods of border warfare, he was in August 1542 put in command of Harbottle Castle with a garrison of a hundred men. On 23 Nov. following he fought at Solway Moss under Thomas, first baron "Wharton q. v., "and claimed to have captured Robert, fifth baron VOL. II.--SUP. Maxwell q.v.; Tunstall and Suffolk, however, determined that Maxwell"s real capto... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography. Supplement Volume 2 (Sir Leslie Stephen)