Thomas Brerewood (c.1670 – 22 December 1746), was a 'Gentleman Entrepreneur & Fraudster'.

He was involved with the "Pitkin Affair" of 1705, a bankruptcy fraud committed with his business partner Thomas Pitkin that was surpassed in scale only by the South Sea Bubble of 1720.

From 1741, to his death on December 22, 1746, Brerewood held office as the clerk of Baltimore County.

Thomas Brerewood was born circa 1670 to a well-known Chester family.

[1][2] He was apprenticed to his uncle, Francis Brerewood, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, London in June 1686 and admitted to the Fishmongers' Company in 1699.