Henry Ford (Tiverton MP)

Sir Henry Ford (January 1617[2] – 1684), of Nutwell in Devon was four times MP for Tiverton between 1664 and 1685 and twice Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1669–70 and 1672–73.

He was put in the Commission of the Peace for the county, and was lieutenant-colonel in the militia for the eastern division of the shire, of which he was likewise a deputy-lieutenant.

[12] In 1669 he accompanied John, lord Robartes, the lord-lieutenant, to Ireland as secretary of state, but 'to his no little damage and disappointment' was recalled along with his chief the very next year.

In 1672 Ford, having been knighted at Whitehall on 20 July in that year,[13] served in the same capacity for Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex.

[15] Ford left a son Charles, supposed to have died in his minority, and three daughters, married to Drake, Holwell, and Egerton.