George Henry Ford

James Edward Ford, one of the 1820 Settlers, was born in England in 1770, and emigrated to South Africa, landing at Port Elizabeth in April 1820.

The area allocated to the party lay midway between Bathurst and the Great Fish River mouth and was named Cuylerville after Col. Jacob Cuyler.

Young George Ford was suffering from a broken hip inflicted by a cow, an injury which left him permanently crippled, prompting Smith to take him back to Cape Town.

He proved to be so proficient that in 1825 Smith recommended him to the newly founded South African Museum in Cape Town, and later seconded him to the 1834–36 "Expedition for Exploring Central Africa".

George Viner Ellis (1812-1900) succeeded to the Chair of Anatomy at University College London in 1850, and became one of the foremost anatomists of his time.