Robert W. Ford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert W. Ford

Radio officer

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1923

Place of Birth: Burton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Sep-2013

Profession: writer, diplomat, explorer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Robert Webster Ford CBE (27 March 1923 – 20 September 2013) was a British radio operator who worked in Tibet in the late 1940s.
He was one of the few Westerners to be appointed by the Government of Tibet in the period of de facto independence between 1912 and the year 1950 when the Chinese army marched on Chamdo.
In 1994, he declared that during the five years he spent in Tibet, he "had the opportunity to witness and experience at first hand the reality of Tibetan independence." In 1956 he was appointed at the British Diplomatic Service and served in the Foreign Office.