Sir Thomas Joseph Stafford, 1st Baronet CB DL (3 May 1857 – 11 May 1935) was an Anglo-Irish medical doctor and official in the Dublin Castle administration of Ireland.
He qualified as licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1882 and established a medical practice at Boyle, County Roscommon.
In the 1890s he was appointed as the medical commissioner of the Local Government Board for Ireland, with responsibility for administering the Irish Poor Laws.
[1][2] Stafford collaborated with the Marchioness of Aberdeen to combat tuberculosis, serving on a government committee in 1912 and implementing its recommendations at a local level.
In 1906, Stafford was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and on 21 January 1914 he was made a baronet, of Rockingham in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.