Can anyone link to this COUCH - FORD family? Extracted from the Oxford DNB QUILLER- COUCH, Sir Arthur Thomas [pseud. Q] (1863-1944), writer and anthologist, was born on 21 November 1863 at Poul Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, the eldest of the five children of Thomas Quiller COUCH (1826-1884), physician, and his wife, Mary (d. 1901), daughter of Elias FORD, yeoman and his wife Theophilas of Abbotskerswell, near Newton Abbot, Devon. The QUILLERs and COUCHs had lived for generations in Polperro, Cornwall, earning their living largely from the sea. Q's grandfather Jonathan COUCH (1789-1870) was a doctor and noted naturalist. Educated at Newton Abbot College, Devon, and Clifton College, Bristol, QUILLER-COUCH won a classics scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1882. Q published nearly forty novels, short-story collections, and anthologies. In late March 1944 Q fell while avoiding a vehicle in Fowey, and on 12 May, at his house in Fowey, he succumbed to cancer of the mouth, brought on by a lifetime of smoking. He was buried in Fowey on 15 May. Regards, Jack Steer Banbury