FORD, Marianne Adele Hermionne 1937-2021
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Richard R
May 14, 2021, 2:54:09 AM5/14/21
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From the Telegraph of 14 May 2021: FORD (Laver), Marianne Adele Hermione died peacefully at home, 3 May 2021. Art director and much loved mother, sister, grandmother and aunt. Private Cremation. No flowers, donations to the BRINSLEY FORD CHARITABLE TRUST c/o N.Warr, Taylor Wessing LLP, 5 New Street Square, London...
She was d of Sir (Richard) Brinsley FORD CBE 1908-99 (gs of Sir John William RAMSDEN 5th Bt 1831-1914, and gt gs of 12th Duke of SOMERSET 1804-85 etc) and Joan Mary 1910- d of Capt William Geoffrey VYVYAN 1876-ka1914 (gt gs of Sir Vyell VYVYAN 7th Bt 1767-1820). She m 1966 (div 1973) Patrick Martin 1932-2006 s of James LAVER 1899-1975 by his c1928 m reg Q1 London to Bridget Veronica TURLEY 1899-1971, and had a dau who is m with issue.
She was d of Sir (Richard) Brinsley FORD CBE 1908-99 (gs of Sir John William RAMSDEN 5th Bt 1831-1914, and gt gs of 12th Duke of SOMERSET 1804-85 etc) and Joan Mary 1910- d of Capt William Geoffrey VYVYAN 1876-ka1914 (gt gs of Sir Vyell VYVYAN 7th Bt 1767-1820). She m 1966 (div 1973) Patrick Martin 1932-2006 s of James LAVER 1899-1975 by his c1928 m reg Q1 London to Bridget Veronica TURLEY 1899-1971, and had a dau who is m with issue.
Richard R
Sep 14, 2021, 4:58:48 AM9/14/21
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Obit in the Telegraph of 14 Sept 2021:
Marianne Ford, debutante and Bohemian who found her métier as a set designer for top directors in film and TV – obituary
Marianne Adele Hermione Ford was born in London on November 11 1937, the oldest child of Richard (later Sir Richard) Brinsley Ford, an art collector and historian, and Joanna, née Vyvyan. She was educated at St Mary’s Convent, Ascot, where, despite being on the verge of expulsion on several occasions, she disconcerted her parents by expressing a desire to take the veil.
...[During a trip to the US in the early 1960s] she ran into an old friend, Patrick Laver, a diplomat, and fell in love. They returned to London in 1966, Marianne having taken against the US advertising scene, and married and had a daughter.
The marriage soon ended, however, and with her father’s help, Marianne bought and did up a house in Notting Hill where she, her daughter and a nanny moved in 1970...
[In the 1970s she met the actor] Tom Baker, who, as she recalled, had told her “in great secrecy that he was to be the next Doctor Who and was deeply disappointed to learn that I hadn’t a clue who Doctor Who was.”
...A vigorous bon viveur, Marianne Ford dreaded losing her independence and was a member of Dignity in Dying for some years before she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in early 2020. It was a real blow to find herself in palliative care a year later, unable to choose a time for her own death, and two weeks before she died she made a video urging MPs to legislate to allow assisted dying. Her daughter survives her.
Marianne Ford, born November 11 1937, died May 3 2021
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/13/marianne-ford-debutante-bohemian-found-metier-set-designer-top/
Marianne Ford, debutante and Bohemian who found her métier as a set designer for top directors in film and TV – obituary
Marianne Adele Hermione Ford was born in London on November 11 1937, the oldest child of Richard (later Sir Richard) Brinsley Ford, an art collector and historian, and Joanna, née Vyvyan. She was educated at St Mary’s Convent, Ascot, where, despite being on the verge of expulsion on several occasions, she disconcerted her parents by expressing a desire to take the veil.
...[During a trip to the US in the early 1960s] she ran into an old friend, Patrick Laver, a diplomat, and fell in love. They returned to London in 1966, Marianne having taken against the US advertising scene, and married and had a daughter.
The marriage soon ended, however, and with her father’s help, Marianne bought and did up a house in Notting Hill where she, her daughter and a nanny moved in 1970...
[In the 1970s she met the actor] Tom Baker, who, as she recalled, had told her “in great secrecy that he was to be the next Doctor Who and was deeply disappointed to learn that I hadn’t a clue who Doctor Who was.”
...A vigorous bon viveur, Marianne Ford dreaded losing her independence and was a member of Dignity in Dying for some years before she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in early 2020. It was a real blow to find herself in palliative care a year later, unable to choose a time for her own death, and two weeks before she died she made a video urging MPs to legislate to allow assisted dying. Her daughter survives her.
Marianne Ford, born November 11 1937, died May 3 2021
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/13/marianne-ford-debutante-bohemian-found-metier-set-designer-top/
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