Thomas Troward (1847–1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity. Troward was a divisional Judge in Punjab in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Judge Troward worked in India in the 1800s. His codification or world teachings influenced many of the greatest thinkers of the 20th-century American self-help movement. Troward believed that world was Universal Mind, and the seed of all things is thought in conjunction with the universal source.