from which William Ford managed the Powder Mills, Leigh, Medway - which were initially known as the Ramhurst Powder Mills, and later as the Tunbridge Gunpowder Works – that he established in 1811 in partnership with his father and with Sir Humphry Davy, both of whom were early members of the Athenaeum Club, London. Subsequent to the retirement of James Burton in 1824, William Ford became the sole owner of the mills until his death in 1856, at which point the gunpowder business was transferred to his brother, Alfred Burton JP, who was Mayor of Hastings. William Ford lived at St John's Wood, The Holme, and South Lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea. He never married but had two illegitimate sons: Henry Marley Burton FRIBA (1821 - 1880) and William Warwick Burton (d. 21 October 1861). Henry Marley was baptized as Henry Marley on 12 Dec 1821: at his baptism, he was claimed to be the son of William Marley and Sally Marley, London neighbours of the Burtons. Henry Marley had at least one son, Edgar Burton, also an architect, whose daughter Adelaide was abortively married to Leopold Albu, of 4 Hamilton Place, Mayfair, the brother of Sir George Albu, between 19 August 1901 and 1915. William Warwick Burton lived at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he was articled as a solicitor to his uncle, Septimus Burton (1794 - 1842) of Lincoln's Inn. William Warwick Burton had three children, William Edgar Burton, Edmund Burton, and Jessy Burton, each of whom were left property in the will of their uncle, Decimus, who never married and died without issue. Emma Elizabeth (4 August 1785 – 13 December 1785). She died from smallpox. Eliza (29 September 1786 – 6 February 1877). She lived for a time at No. 36 Marina and later at No. 5 West Hill in St. Leonards-on-Sea. She did not marry. James (22 September 1788 – 22 February 1862). Egyptologist. Emily (10 August 1791 – 20 May 1792). Jane (4 April 1792 – 11 December 1879). She married Thomas Walker (who changed his surname to Wood in 1817) of Tonbridge, at Tonbridge, in 1812. She had one son George James (1813–1831), and three daughters, Emily (1815–1892), Helen (1816–1903), and Rose Anne (b. 1818) who lived at North Lodge St. Leonards-on-Sea. Septimus (27 July 1794 – 25 November 1842). Septimus was educated at Lincoln's Inn, where he in 1810 was articled to J. W. Lyon