William Norford

William Norford (1715–1793) was an English medical practitioner and writer.

Norford was apprenticed to John Amyas, a surgeon in Norwich, and then began practice at Halesworth in Suffolk, as a surgeon and man-midwife.

He married the daughter of a surgeon, and after some years moved to Bury St Edmunds.

He became an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians of London on 26 November 1761, and began to practise as a physician: on the strength of his licence he styled himself Doctor.

[1] Norford began to write inspired by the example of Dale Ingram, and some remarks of John Freke.