Thomas Fludyer

Sir Thomas Fludyer FRS (1711 – 19 March 1769) was an English merchant and banker who was a Whig Member of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1767–9.

[3] In 1738, he was a junior partner in his brother's firm, which grew to dominate the wool market in London if not all of England.

[4] He was knighted on 9 November 1761 at a reception for George III at Guildhall, London, during his brother's term as Lord Mayor.

On 20 October 1765, Prime Minister George Grenville wrote to John Sargent, "With regard to Sir Thomas Fludyer's application to you for your recommendation at Shoreham you know that I gave him all the assistance in my power when he was candidate last spring for Devizes and therefore can have no objection to him now supposing that Sir Samuel and he are still in the same sentiments towards me which they were then in."

However, he was reluctant to lose again, as on 28 October, Grenville wrote to another possible candidate, Topham Beauclerk, that Fludyer was "unwilling to appear at all without the certainty of success".