Horder, Thomas Jeeves, 1st Baron Horder of Ashford (1871–1955)

English physician. He was physician to Edward VIII and George VI, Extra Physician to Queen Elizabeth II, consulting physician to the Royal Orthopaedic and Royal Northern Hospitals, and honorary consulting physician to the Ministry of Pensions. Horder was a great bedside teacher, revered by his staff and students. His interests were wide-ranging: he was president of a number of societies, including the Medical Society of London, the Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, and the Family Planning Association.

Horder was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where from 1912 he was successively assistant physician, physician and consulting physician. His writings include Cerebro-Spinal Fever (1915), Essentials of Medical Diagnosis (1928), coauthored with A E Gow, Health and a Day (1937), Health and Social Welfare (1945), and The Philosophy of Jesus (1945), coauthored with H Roberts. He was knighted in 1918, made a baronet in 1923, and baron in 1933.