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''For other uses see John Ford (disambiguation)'' John Ford (1586ca. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon. ==Origins== John Ford was baptised 17 April 1586 at Ilsington Church, Devon, and was the second son of Thomas Ford (1556–1610) of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, by his wife Elizabeth Popham (d.1629) of the Popham family of Huntworth in Somerset.〔Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.349, pedigree of Ford of Nutwell. No first name given for her father "..Popham of Huntworthie"〕 Her monument exists in Ilsington Church.〔Vivian, p.349〕 Thomas Ford's grandfather was John Ford (d.1538) of Ashburton〔Vivian, p.652〕 (the son and heir of William Ford of Chagford,〔Vivian, p.349, pedigree of Ford〕) who purchased the estate of Bagtor in the parish of Ilsington, which his male heirs successively made their seat.〔Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1810 edition, London, 1810, p.135〕 The Elizabethan mansion of the Fords survives today at Bagtor as the service wing of a later house appended in about 1700.〔Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.507; Hoskins, W.G., A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.415〕〔Lysons (1822) gives the following description of the Ford family: "Ford, of Chagford, &c. — Eight descents of this family are described in the visitation of 1620. Prince supposes them to have been descended from the Fords, of Fordmore, in Moreton Hampsted, settled there as early as the 12th century; the heiress of that family married Charles, of Tavistock. The Fords, of Chagford, settled there in consequence of a marriage with the heiress of Hill. John, the fourth in descent, who was of Ashburton, married the heiress of Holwell, by whom he had a daughter and heiress married to St. Clere. The son of a second marriage continued the family. John Ford, of Bagtor, married the heiress of Drake, of Spratshays, in Littleham, and was father of Sir Henry Ford, of Nutwell, who was chief secretary for Ireland, under Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, and was buried at Woodbury, in 1684: he left a son Charles, supposed to have died in his minority, and three daughters, married to Drake, (ancestor of George Drake, Esq., of Ipplepen,) Holwill, and Egerton. John, second son of John Ford above mentioned, continued the line at Ashburton; Mr. John Ford, who died in 1677, is supposed to have been the last of the branch: there was another younger branch at Totnes. Arms: — Party per fesse, A. and S., in chief, a greyhound current; in base, an owl within a border engrailed, all counterchanged. Crest: — A demi-greyhound, charged with a bend, Argent, collar'd, Or, between 2 apple branches fructed of the second".(Lysons, Samuel & Daniel. (1822). (''Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire, Families removed since 1620.'' ) pp. CLXXIII-CCXXV.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ford (dramatist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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