 He also relied on friends such as Henry Unwin Addington, the British minister in Madrid 1829–1833 and Pascual de Gayangos, an arabist, to provide him with more recent publications.Ford's marriage was not a happy one and after their return to England in 1833 the couple separated.Ford went to live in Exeter and in 1835 he purchased a Heavitree house close to its eastern boundary.