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In 1789 Ford was returned for East Grinstead by the Duke of Dorset, presumably as a supporter of Pitt. No vote by him appears in this Parliament, but three speeches of his are reported. He commented on the legal aspects of Warren Hastings’s petition, 1 May 1789; on the bill to prevent vexatious removals of the poor, 15 May, opposed a clause which ‘took away the possibility of a settlement’—‘was pleasant on his own profession ... he did not know but he might fall into the situation of a person to become chargeable’;1Stockdale, xvii. 235. his third speech was in the debate on army estimates, 5 Feb. 1790.
He died 3 May 1806, aged 47.