Editing Ford Madox Ford (section)

==Early life==
Ford was born in Merton in Surrey<ref>{{cite book|title=Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s24bAgAAQBAJ&q=ford+madox+ford+kingston+road&pg=PT9|isbn=9781908909701|access-date=3 February 2014|last1=Ford|first1=Ford Madox|date=17 November 2013| publisher=Delphi Classics }}</ref> to [[Catherine Madox Brown]] and [[Francis Hueffer]], the eldest of three; his brother was [[Oliver Madox Hueffer]] and his sister was [[Juliet Soskice|Juliet Hueffer]], the wife of David Soskice and mother of [[Frank Soskice]]. Ford's father, who became a music critic for ''[[The Times]]'', was German and his mother English. His paternal grandfather [[:de:Johann Hermann Hüffer|Johann Hermann Hüffer]] was the first to publish the [[Westphalia]]n poet and author [[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff]]. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painter [[Ford Madox Brown]], whose biography he would eventually write. His mother's older half-sister was [[Lucy Madox Brown]], the wife of [[William Michael Rossetti]] and mother of [[Olivia Rossetti Agresti]].

In 1889, after the death of their father, Ford and Oliver went to live with their grandfather in London. Ford attended the [[University College School]] in London, but never studied at university.<ref name="Ford Madox Society">{{cite web|last1=Saunders|first1=Max|title=Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939): Biography|url=http://www.fordmadoxford.org/fords-biography.html |publisher=The Ford Madox Society|access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref> In November 1892, at 18, he became a Catholic, "very much at the encouragement of some Hueffer relatives, but partly (he confessed) galled by the 'militant atheism and anarchism' of his English cousins."<ref>Janet Soskice, "I have never felt so at home." ''The Tablet'', 8 September 2012, 15. Ford was a great uncle of Soskice's husband.</ref>