Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder

(Thomas) Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder (8 December 1910 – 3 July 1997) was an English hereditary peer, publisher, and a composer of songs. Life Horder was born in London on 8 December 1910. He was the youngest child and only son of Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, known as ‘Tommy’, who was created a baronet in 1923 and Baron Horder in 1933 in recognition of his services as physician to several British monarchs and Prime Ministers. Horder became the second Baron on the death of his father in 1955, inheriting the house and gardens at Ashford Chace, near Steep. After his studies at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics, in the early 1930s, Mervyn Horder attended the Guildhall School of Music, studying principally composition; he had also become a competent pianist. Horder opted not to make music his profession, becoming instead a publisher, and by 1938 was on the board of the small publishing firm of Duckworth. Before the Second World War, Horder had acquired some flying experience, learning to fly the newly-invented autogyro, a combination of light aircraft and helicopter. He was accepted into the RAF Reserve, and saw service forecastin