Early Life
The son of an Indian Army officer, Brigadier G.N. Ford, and his Russian wife Ekaterina, Ford was a boy chorister at King's College, Cambridge and was educated at Gresham's School and Downing College, Cambridge. At Downing he studied under F.R. Leavis.
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