John Simpson Ford

John Simpson Ford FRSE (1866-17 March 1944) was a Scottish industrial chemist and microbiologist specialising in brewing who served as Technical Director of William Younger & Co. Scottish candidates for a Diploma in Brewing may apply for the J S Ford Award which is named in his honour.

He studied at the Roya High School then was articled as an apprentice in 1880 under the Public Analyst, Falconer King.

He independently worked out the importance of stabilisers and the impact of impurities such as copper or salt leaching during the process.

His proposers were Prof Alexander Crum Brown, Hugh Marshall, Leonard Dobbin and John Gibson.

[4] In the early 20th century he lived at 4 Nile Grove in the Morningside district of southern Edinburgh.