Career
After Cambridge, Ford joined the army, and from 1940 until the end of the Second World War was the officer commanding the Middle East School of Artistic Studies.
Later he worked at the United Nations Secretariat in its early years, was the BBC's head of schools broadcasting, was Education Secretary to the Cambridge University Press, edited important academic journals and anthologies (see sections below) and became Professor of Education at Sussex University and later at Bristol.
He was a follower of Leavis but had a stormy relationship with him and his wife Q. D.. At one point, Q. D. wrote to him "Mrs Leavis informs Mr Ford that he is no longer an acceptable visitor to her house. Any communications from him will not be answered."
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