Thomas Coventry (c. 1713–1797) was a British lawyer, financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1780.
Coventry was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1728,[1] entered the Inner Temple in 1732 and was called to the bar in 1735.
[2] The same year, he succeeded to the North Cray estate of his friend and kinsman, Rev.
William Hetherington, [2] where around 1780, he hired Capability Brown to landscape the parkland.
[3] Coventry died at his house in Sergeants Inn on 21 May 1797 and was buried at Temple Church.