[1] He fell heir to a large estate from a relative of his mother's when he was twenty-one years of age but lost most of it gambling.
[4] During Fleetwood's tenure at Drury Lane, he introduced a number of reforms including the abolition of the Footman's Gallery.
[1] Fleetwood's management was artistically noteworthy but a financial disaster due to his gambling;[5] profits from the Theatre were used to fund the bets.
[1][7] Increases in the price of entry tickets caused brawls to break out during November 1744, which was possibly the trigger for Fleetwood selling the patent to the bankers a few weeks later in December.
[8] After the sale of the Drury Lane theatre patent, Fleetwood moved to the Chalon-sur-Saône area in France sometime in the spring of 1745.