Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder

Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, (7 January 1871 – 13 August 1955) was a British physician best known for his appointments as physician-in-ordinary to Kings Edward VII, George V, and George VI, and extra physician to Queen Elizabeth II. He was also the chosen physician of three prime ministers. He was knighted in 1918, made a baronet in 1923 and raised to the peerage in 1933.

Biography

Early life and education

Thomas Jeeves Horder was born on 7 January 1871, the son of draper Albert Horder, in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Jeeves was his mother's maiden name. He was educated privately, and at the University of London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Career Horder began his career at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where his first junior post was under Samuel Gee. When still quite young, Horder successfully made a difficult diagnosis on King Edward VII which made his reputation.

His patients included every British monarch from Edward VII to Elizabeth II (except Edward VIII). he was created a baronet in Bonar Law's resignation honours list (issued on 25 May 1923). He was raised to the peerage as Baron Horder, of Ashford in the County of Southampton on 23 January 1933.

Horder served as president of the British Eugenics Society from 1935 to 1949. He was president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain from 1940 to his death in 1955. From 1941 he chaired the Horder Committee for the Royal College of Nursing with the report published in 1949.

He was president of The Peckham Experiment in 1949.

In 1954, Horder opened the Overdale Crematorium in Bolton.

Marriage and later life In 1902, Horder married Geraldine Rose Doggett (1872–1954), 1933: created 1st Baron Horder, of Ashford in the County of Southampton 1938: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Hon. DCL (Dunelm.) Hon. MD (Melbourne and Adelaide)

Published works Articles "Medicine and the State." JAMA, vol. 140, no. 14 (6 August 1949): 1135–1192. .

Books Clinical Pathology in Practice. London: H. Frowde (1910) Cerebro-Spinal Fever. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1915) Medical Notes. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1921) Essentials of Medical Diagnosis with A. E. Gow. Cassell & Co. (1928) Health and a Day. Dent (1938) Obscurantism. Watts & Co. (1938) Lessons Taught by War-time Feeding (1943) Rheumatism. H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., (1944) Health and Social Welfare, 1944–1945. London & New York: Todd Publishing Company (1944) Health and Social Welfare, 1945–1946. Diet and Rheumatism (1945) British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (editor). Butterworth (1950–1952) Fifty Years of Medicine. Duckworth (1953) Bread: The Chemistry and Nutrition of Flour and Bread with Sir Charles Dodds and T. Moran. Constable (1954)

Book contributions "Methods of Obtaining Material from the Body for Bacteriological Examination (revised and amplified)" (Chapter 7). In: A Laboratory Handbook of Bacteriology, by Rudolf Abel, pp. 178–184. Translated by M. H. Gordon. Oxford University Press (1907). . 2nd English ed. (1912). London: H. Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton. . Foreword to Poverty and Population: A Factual Study of Contemporary Social Waste, by Richard M. Titmuss, x-xiii. London: Macmillan (1938) Foreword to Democracy Marches, by Julian Huxley, ix-x. London: Chatto & Windus with Hogarth Press; New York: Harper (1941). .