Honors
For his service to the Crown, Edward Ford was appointed MVO in 1949, Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1952, knighted as KCVO in 1957, advanced to KCB in 1967 and promoted to the highest level in the Royal Victorian Order, Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) in 1998. He received the Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) in 1987, having long served as a reserve officer, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, served as Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire. He was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1979.
He was the literary executor of Sir Alan Lascelles. Despite the sensitive nature of their contents, he managed to secure permission for Sir Alan's wartime diaries to be published. King's Counsellor was launched in 2006, a few weeks before his death.
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