Thomas Almond Ashby[2] (November 18, 1848 – June 26, 1916)[3][4] was an American surgeon, writer, and politician, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

At his death, he was the only faculty member of the University of Maryland to have served in the state legislature.

[5] Born in Warren County, Virginia, Ashby attended Washington and Lee University studying the classics, modern languages and chemistry, and studied medicine at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated with an M.D.

He was chairman of the Hygienic Committee, and introduced bills in the health field, including those concerning pure food, the care of the mentally ill, and increasing the powers of the State Board of Health.

[3] Ashby wrote a biography of his relative, Turner Ashby, a Confederate general killed in action in 1862 in the Civil War entitled Life of Turner Ashby, and a book on the Civil War actions in the Shenandoah Valley, entitled The Valley Campaigns Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States (1914).