1912 Dec. 6th. b. England English Painter and Writer 1926 Enrolled Dartmouth Naval College. 1937 Moved to Paris. Very briefly enrolled briefly at the academy of Andre Lhote and the atelier of Fernand Leger. Meets and befriends Roberto Matta. 1938 Gordon Onslow Ford joined the Surrealist Group Summer in Brittany working with Roberto Matta Introduces Edith Rimmington to the London Surrealists Group. Photographs Jeannette Tanguy, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar sitting together at a table in the Cafe de Flore. 1939 Summer was spent at Chemillieu, in Ain, along with Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy Esteban Frances and Ithell Colquhoun. 1940 Co-edited final edition of The London Bulletin with Roland Penrose and ELT Mesens. 1941 Invalided by illness, he received permission to go to New York. Invited to speak at a servies of lectures organized by the Committee to Preserve European Culture. There he joined his friends Roberto Matta, Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy. Meets and m. Jacqueline Johnsonand they moves to Taxco, Mexico. where they were visited by Matta with his wife Anne , Robert Motherwell, and Barbara Reis (the daughter of Surrealist patrons Bernard and Becky Reis) (See ->. Old friend Wolfgang Paalen visits frequently and the three of them collaborate on DYN. 1942 Published in Toni del Renzio's journal Arson. 1947 They move to Bay Area, San Francisco. Met Jean Varda and together they purchased the an old ferry boat which they moored in Sausalito and turned into studios into studios. 1951 With Wolfgang Paalen Jacqueline and Lee Mullican -> organises the exhibition Dynaton ->. 1976 Death of Jacqueline. 1989 meets and collaborates with Fariba Bogzaran ->. 1998? Cofounder of Lucid Art Organization -> with Robert Anthoine and Fariba Bogzaran. 2003 d. 09th Nov. California. See wiki -> and Biography -> and work ->. See Timeline