Sir Samuel Fludyer, 3rd Baronet

[2] He was the only son of Sir Samuel Brudenell Fludyer, who inherited most of the first Sir Samuel's fortune, and had his children painted by Thomas Lawrence, the foremost portrait painter of the time, indicating the family's wealth and social standing.

The portrait shows Sir Samuel (3rd Baronet) between his sisters Maria and Carolina Louisa.

After an argument with his sisters Sir Samuel was admitted to Ticehurst Private Asylum in Sussex in 1839 and stayed there until his death.

As a result of his having been confined he died a bachelor and had no issue, and his considerable estate was divided equally between his sisters Maria Fludyer and Caroline Louisa Derby.

[5] Louisa Lowe, a former secretary of the Lunacy Law Reform Society (founded 1873) took up the story in her diatribe against private asylums, The Bastilles of England (1883).

Arms of Fludyer: Sable, a cross patoncée between four escallops argent each charged with a cross patoncée of the field [ 1 ]
Thomas Lawrence : Children of Sir Samuel Fludyer (1806), Museu de Arte de São Paulo