William Ford or Foord (1559 in Bury St Edmunds – in or after 1616) was a Church of England clergyman.
[2] He has been identified with a William Ford who became Rector of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, in 1594,[1] and was Vicar of Keysoe in 1596–7.
On 1 September 1613 he intimated a wish to resign his post, but was requested to remain a year longer.
2-4] preached at Constantinople, in the Vines of Perah, at the Funerall of the vertuous and admired Lady Anne Glover, sometime Wife to the Honourable Knight Sir Thomas Glover, and then Ambassadour ordinary for his Maiesty of Great Britaine, in the Port of the Great Turkey, 4to, London, 1616.
In dedicating this discourse to Lady Wentworth the author would perhaps be encouraged, should it prove acceptable to her, 'to second it with some more pleasing and delightful subject, which mine own experience hath gathered from no less painful then farre forraigne obseruations'.