Portraits, photographs and other materials relating to the Ford family of Leeds

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 MS 398a
  • Dates of Creation
      ca. 1850-1925
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      17 items (silhouettes, photographs, portraits, scrapbook, printed book)

Scope and Content

Contains: (i) 3 silhouettes (framed); (ii) Tinted photograph of Isabella Ormston Ford (cased); (iii) 1 photograph (cased); (iv) Photograph of a portrait of Hannah Pease in an oval frame; (v) Portrait of Christopher Rawlinson; (vi) Portait of Martha Lucy Aggs; (vii) Portrait of Hutton Rawlinson Ford; (viii) Tinted photograph of Thomas Pease; (ix) Photograph of Thomas Benson Pease; (x) Portrait of John Rawlinson Ford; (xi) Ford family portrait; (xii) Photograph of Hannah Pease portrait by J.Gilbert; (xiii) Photograph of portrait of Hannah Arthington; (xiv) Scrapbook including family photographs and botanical drawings, inscribed to Margaret Carol Benson Ford from her great aunt, Helen Cordelia Ford; (xv) A copy of Notes of a tour in India and Ceylon during the winter of 1888-89 by Helen C. Ford, London 1889, with drawings and photographs inserted in the printed text

Administrative / Biographical History

The prominent Quaker families of Ford and Pease were related by marriage and had connections with the Leeds area in the nineteenth century.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Miss Ursula Ford and Mrs Cara Rablen, July 2001

Note

In English

Additional Information

The larger portraits [items (v)-(xiii)] are deposited in the University Gallery