William Henry Ord

William Henry Ord (1803 – 9 November 1838) was a British politician, who represented Newport in Parliament from 1832 until 1837.

Ord was the only son of William Ord, a landowner who was MP for Morpeth 1802–32 and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife Mary Scott. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1822. He then trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. In 1829, he married Frances Vere Loraine, daughter of Sir William Loraine, 4th Baronet.

Ord was elected for Newport at the 1832 general election as a Liberal, and re-elected at the 1835 general election. After the 1835 election he was made a Lord of the Treasury in the Second Melbourne ministry, with a salary of £1,200. It was reported that he had been earlier offered the post in June 1834 at the end of the Grey ministry, as a gesture to acknowledge his father's support, but had declined at the time as he thought it would be unlikely he could secure re-election.

During 1836, at the Treasury, he worked on the consolidation and reduction of stamp duties on newspapers and other publications; his friend Charles Knight considered the task "herculean" and wrote later that "the labour killed him". Ord stood down at dissolution in 1837 and did not contest the general election.