Ford studied at Repton School, Clare College, the Slade School of Fine Art, and the Bushey School of Art, until in 1892 he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Art. It was not these paintings, ...

He then moved to St Peter's boarding school in Weston-super-Mare and suffered from homesickness. At the age of 13 he moved on to Repton School in Derbyshire. Dahl's largely unhappy time at school ...