Background
Ord was born in 1834, the son of George Ord, Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, a surgeon who practiced in Brixton.
Ord was born in 1834, the son of George Ord, Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, a surgeon who practiced in Brixton.
He was a surgeon at Saint Thomas Hospital in London, where he worked for 50 years. He received his medical education at Street Thomas" Hospital, where he entered in 1852, and at London University. At Saint Thomas′, he was successively surgical registrar, house surgeon, lecturer in comparative anatomy, lecturer in physiology, assistant physician lecturer in medicine, and physician.
He was also elected Dean of the Medical School.
In 1879 he described Ord"s thyroiditis.
He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1855, and a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1869 (later elected a Fellow in 1875). He was an active member of the Medical Society of London, and was president of the society in 1885.