Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880 – 1961) was a distinguished English physician, becoming doctor to George VI. He is now remembered as a writer, in particular of the satirical Augustus Carp Esquire by Himself (1924), which was first published anonymously. He also wrote some popular poetry

Works

• The corner of Harley Street: being some familiar correspondence of Peter Harding, M.D. (1911)
• Pity the poor blind (1917)
• The Heroic Record of the British Navy (1920) with A. Hurd
• Augustus Carp Esquire, by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924)
• The Happy Ghost and Other Stories (1925)
• The Harley Street Calendar (1929)
• Fisherman's Progress (1946)