Sir Patrick Ford, 1st Baronet
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Sir Patrick Johnstone Ford, 1st Baronet (5 March 1880 – 28 September 1945){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224851/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsF2.htm Baronetcies: F]}} at Leigh Rayment's peerage pages was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.
From around 1905 he was the main artistic patron of Patrick Adam.{{Cite web | url=https://www.richardgreen.com/artwork/bs317-patrick-william-adam-the-breakfast-table/ | title=BS317-Patrick William Adam-The breakfast table}}
For fought Edinburgh East as a Liberal Unionist at a by-election in 1909 and at the first general election of 1910, being defeated both times by the Liberal candidate in a straight fight.{{cite news|title=East Edinburgh|work=The Courier|date=17 April 1909}}{{cite book|title=The Times House of Commons 1910|date=1910|publisher=John Parkinson Bland at the Times Office|location=London|page=94}}
Ford was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North on his first attempt, at a by-election in 1920.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}} He was re-elected in 1922 general election, but was defeated in 1923 by the Liberal Party candidate Peter Raffan. He regained the seat at the 1924 general election, and held it until he stepped down at the 1935 general election.
Ford was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1926 New Year Honours, as well as being made a baronet of Westerdunes in the County of East Lothian on 27 July 1929.{{London Gazette |issue=33523 |date=6 August 1929 |page=5143}} He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Forth Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, on 26 June 1926.Army List.
He is buried with his wife and son near the centre of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
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Category:Nobility from Edinburgh
Category:Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs
Category:Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates
Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies
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