Richard Ford, an English author and traveller, horn in London in 1796, died at Heavi-tree, near Exeter, Sept. 1, 1858. He was educated at Winchester and at Trinity college, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, hut never practiced. In 1830 he visited Spain, where he spent several years in the study of the country and the people. From 1836 to 1857 he was a regular contributor to the"Quarterly Review." in which his articles on the life, literature, and art of Spain attracted much attention. He was the author of Murray's "Handbook for Spain," first published in 1845, and rewritten and enlarged in 1855. His remaining publications are Gatherings in Spain" (1848), and "Tauromachia, the Bull Fights of Spain, with 26 illustrations" (1852). His collection of books, prints, and pictures was one of the choicest in England.