Elmer Ford
An extremely wealthy American, Ford was married to Nesta, until they were divorced in Washington, D.C.. When introduced to the reader of The Little Nugget around a year after this event, he is a large, commanding man of middle age, with powerful shoulders and a square-jawed, clean-shaven, aggressive face reminiscent of a Roman emperor. After the divorce he won custody of their son Ogden, and kept the boy with him at his English country house, understanding that the boy's unpleasant behaviour is mostly due to his mother spoiling him. During the events of The Little Nugget, Ford spends most of his time offstage, taking the waters at Droitwich to soothe his rheumatism, but appears towards the end and is reunited with Nesta thanks to the intervention of "Smooth" Sam Fisher. He hires Fisher as a bodyguard for his son, but dies before the events of Piccadilly Jim.
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