Early Life
Ford was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire to parents who were both West End actors. Her father had declined an offer from Samuel Goldwyn to work in Hollywood, and her mother had worked with Alec Guinness. Her father John later became ordained as an Anglican priest and took Ford and her four brothers to live at Eskdale in the Lake District. She went to primary school at St. Ursula's School, Wigton, then to Wigton Grammar School. After her father became the parish priest at St Martin's church in Brampton she moved to the White House Grammar School.
Ford received a BA degree in economics from the Victoria University of Manchester and was president of the university's students' union from 1966 to 1967.
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