Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford

Who was Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford?

Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford, Baron Trafford 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, daughter of Albert Ralph Chalk of Cambridge, with whom he had a son Mark and daughter Tanya. He made his home in Hove, Sussex.

He was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Charterhouse, Lincoln's Inn, 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 up an appointment as Senior Registrar at Guy's Hospital in 1963, then became consultant physician at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1965, where he also became director of its artificial kidney unit. He was also director of a private banking company and became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.