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Sir Patrick Johnstone Ford, 1st Baronet (5 March 1880 – 28 September 1945) at Leigh Rayment's peerage pages was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. From around 1905 he was the main artistic patron of Patrick Adam. For fought Edinburgh East as a Liberal Unionist at a by-election in 1909 and at the first general election of 1910, being defeated both times by the Liberal candidate in a straight fight. Ford was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North on his first attempt, at a by-election in 1920. He was re-elected in 1922 general election, but was defeated in
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. He regained the seat at the 1924 general election, and held it until he stepped down at the 1935 general election. Ford was made a Knight Bachelor in the
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, as well as being made a baronet of Westerdunes in the
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on 27 July 1929. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Forth Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, on 26 June 1926.''Army List''. He is buried with his wife and son near the centre of
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in Edinburgh.


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* 1880 births 1945 deaths Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies {{Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub