{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=September 2020}} {{Portal|Christianity}}'''Ford Tichborne''' (1862–1940) was an Irish 20th-century Anglican priest.<ref>"Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D.E; Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 9780521563505</ref>
Born in County Tyrone in 1862<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> and educated at Trinity College, Dublin he held the important offices of Chancellor of Armagh Cathedral, Dean of Armagh (1928–1938)<ref>"A New History of Ireland "Moody,T.M; Martin,F.X; Byrne,F.J;Cosgrove,F: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-821745-5}}</ref> and Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin (1938–1940).<ref>Obituaries section Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref>
Having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD), Tichborne died in 1940.<ref>The Times, Monday, 19 February 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48543; col F ''Obituary F. Tichborne''</ref> There is a memorial to him in the north aisle at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh.<ref>"Funary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh" Curl, J.S. p28: Whitstable; Historical Publications; 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-905286-48-5}}</ref>
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