He inherited the baronetcy at a late age after his cousin and two elder brothers died without issue.
His father, however, had decided that the Church should be his career, and so he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1826.
[2][3] In 1832, Fludyer married Augusta, daughter of Sir Richard Borough, Bart, and granddaughter of Viscount Lake.
[6] In 1863, on the death of his second brother William the remaining family moved to Ayston Hall,[7] whose grounds adjoin the church there, and in 1870 he resigned the living at Thistleton.
Henry was reputed to be a devoted husband, and it was said that never once did she leave the room without his standing to open the door for her, and that every year he cut the first rose of the season for her, and placed it on her boudoir table.