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Frederick Alfred Ford (1849 - 1910) was a businessman and politician. The son of a publisher also named Frederick Alfred Ford, he worked a stockbroker's clerk. Interested in Radical politics, he joined the Dialectical Society where debates were held on such controversial topics as birth control, cremation and land reform. At the society he met Florence Fenwick Miller, early feminist and member of the London School Board who he married in April 1877. By mutual agreement she retained her maiden name, leading to attempts in the courts to remove her from the school board. The resulting judgement was historic, establishing that a woman was not obliged to take her husband's name on marriage.

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  • Frederick Alfred Ford (1849 - 1910) was a businessman and politician. The son of a publisher also named Frederick Alfred Ford, he worked a stockbroker's clerk. Interested in Radical politics, he joined the Dialectical Society where debates were held on such controversial topics as birth control, cremation and land reform. At the society he met Florence Fenwick Miller, early feminist and member of the London School Board who he married in April 1877. By mutual agreement she retained her maiden name, leading to attempts in the courts to remove her from the school board. The resulting judgement was historic, establishing that a woman was not obliged to take her husband's name on marriage.
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  • Frederick Alfred Ford (1849 - 1910) was a businessman and politician. The son of a publisher also named Frederick Alfred Ford, he worked a stockbroker's clerk. Interested in Radical politics, he joined the Dialectical Society where debates were held on such controversial topics as birth control, cremation and land reform. At the society he met Florence Fenwick Miller, early feminist and member of the London School Board who he married in April 1877. By mutual agreement she retained her maiden name, leading to attempts in the courts to remove her from the school board. The resulting judgement was historic, establishing that a woman was not obliged to take her husband's name on marriage. The couple had two daughters, but the marriage ended in separation, apparently due to Ford having abandoned his wife for a music hall actress. By 1888 Ford was a "gentleman on independent means", living in Canonbury in north London. He was unanimously adopted by the local Liberal and Radical Association in Central Finsbury to contest the first elections to the London County Council in January 1889. He won election, and served as a Progressive Party councillor for three years, standing down at the 1892 elections.
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