Ford Madox Ford (originally Hueffer) - Merton Claimed

Ford Madox Ford was born at Merton on the 17 December 1873. He wrote The Good Soldier in 1915. Pen names included Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer.

He died 26 June 1939 (aged 65) at Deauville, France.

Ford Madox Ford was a popular English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.