Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford

Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford, Baron Trafford of Falmer, FRCP (20 July 1932 – 16 September 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician and physician. He was usually known as Anthony Trafford, sometimes shortened to "Tony".

Trafford was son of physician Harold Trafford of Warlingham, Surrey. In 1960 he married Helen Elizabeth, later styled The Lady Trafford of Falmer, daughter of Albert Ralph Chalk of Cambridge. He made his home in Hove, Sussex. Lord and Lady Trafford had a son and a daughter. Hon. Mark Russell Trafford KC (b. 1966) Hon. Tanya Helen Trafford (b. 1968)

He was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, the University of London and Guy's Hospital Medical School where he won the gold medal, graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours in 1957 and gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1961 before attending Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as a Fellow in Medicine and a Fulbright Scholar.

He returned to England to take up appointment as Senior Registrar at Guy's Hospital in 1963, and created a life peer as Baron Trafford, of Falmer in the County of East Sussex on 3 April 1987. Both honours were awarded by Margaret Thatcher. He was appointed as Minister of State for Health in the House of Lords in July 1989, to take charge of government proposals on the Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation.

He died as a patient at the Royal Sussex County Hospital after a short illness of lung cancer in September 1989, aged 57.