Percy Richard Morley Horder [also known as P. Morley Horder] was born the son of the Rev. William Garrett Horder in Torquay, Devon, England on 18 November 1870 and was articled to Gorge Devey and James Williams of Devey & Williams. In 1890 [or 1895 - sources differ] he established his own independent architectural practice in London.
He was in partnership with James Williams from 1895, Briant Alfred Poulter from 1919 to 1925 as Morley Horder & Poulter, and with Verner O. Rees as Horder & Rees from 1926 to 1929.
Photographs of houses in Warwick, Warwickshire, Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, Walton Heath, Surrey Pitsford, Northamptonshire, and Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, designed by Horder are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1908 (illustrations B47, B48, B49, B50, B51, B78, B79); a drawing of a house in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, and photographs of Garboldisham, Norfolk and Hawes, Yorkshire, designed by Horder are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' (pp.41, 43, 44); drawings of houses in Hengrove, Buckinghamshire and Dursley, Gloucestershire, designed by Horder are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1911 (pp.40, 41); photographs houses in Stinchcombe Hill, Gloucestershire and Tring in Hertfordshire designed by Horder, are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1912 (p.31); photographs of houses in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey and Uppingham, Rutland designed by Horder are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1915 (pp.80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85); and drawings of a house in Bishop's Tachbrook, Warwickshire designed by Horder are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1915 (pp.29, 30).
Horder also designed garden fixtures which were executed Garden Crafts Ltd. Photographs of entrances and gates designed by Horder and made by Garden Crafts Ltd. are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1908 (illustrations B28, B32). Horder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1904 and the Art Workers Guild (AWG) in 1916. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London between 1894 and 1922. Horder died in Dartford, Kent, on 7 October 1944.
Architectural projects by Horder included Hill Wooton House, Hill Wooton, Warwick (1893); Inglewood, Brimscombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire (1895); 52 and 54 Brook Street, London (1896-97); Birchington House, Little Common, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex (1899); Congregational churches in Muswell Hill, London (1900); Moonhill, Cuckfield, Surrey (1902); The Greyhound public house, Gloucester Street, Stroud (1903).; the village hall in Pitsford, Northamptonshire (1904); 110 New Bond Street, London (1905); A Cottage at Upper Warlingham Surrey (1905); 121-123 Hampstead Way in Hampstead, London (1907); Inverleith, Lime Tree Road Norwich (1908-1909); additions to Gwynfa Hotel in Painswick, Gloucestershire (1909); The Clothiers Arms public house, , Bath Road, Rodborough Stroud (1909); Hengrove in St. Leonards, Wendover, Gloucestershire (1910); 2 Cottages at Mayhill, Townhill Swansea (1910); The Stonehouse in Hawess, Yorkshire (1911); two Houses at Rodborough in Stroud, Gloucestershire (1911); Munckmead in Pulborough, Sussex (1911); alterations to Waterston Manor in Dorset (1911); he Prince Albert public house, , Rodborough Hill, Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire (1912); Pinfold Manor, Walton on the Hill, Banstead, Surrey (1912-13) for David Lloyd George; The Gyde Orphanage in Painswick, Gloucestershire (1913); Cheshunt College in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (1913-14); Mallory Court, Bishop's Tachbrook, Warwickshire (1914); Periton Mead Manor House, Somerset (1915–22).; the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (1919-21); buildings for University College, Nottingham, now the University of Nottingham (1922-28); and a number of shops for Boots the Chemists from 1919 onwards.
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See also: Historic England; British Listed Buildings; UK Modern House [links below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Gray, A. Stuart. Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1985
'Obituary'. The Builder vol. 167, 20 October 1944 p.317
'Obituary'. RIBA Journal vol. 51, October 1944 p. 320
'Obituary'. RIBA Journal vol. 51, November 1944 pp. 24-25