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Consul / diplomat

Francis Clare Ford

fl. 1892 · United Kingdom

British diplomat, active in 1892. Worked at Constantinople.

Life and work

  1. 1892
    Corresponded from Constantinople with Walter Sendall in Cyprus (Colonial Office records C.O. 67/76, 14 Oct. 1892; C.O. 67/77, 30 Nov. 1892). The Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs asked that all export of antiquities from Cyprus be stopped, citing the 1884 Ottoman law; Sendall replied that the 1884 law post-dated the British occupation and did not apply to Cyprus. The text names Sir Austen Layard as the ambassador; the note names Ford.

    ConstantinopleTatton-Brown 2001

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.