at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1748, and spent some time as chaplain in the Royal Navy, on 31 May 1750 appointed to HMS Prince Henry.
In January 1750 he was in Sierra Leone, of which his nephew, also called Thomas Ludlam, subsequently became governor.
[2] Ludlum was appointed by the assistance of John Jackson confrater of Wigston's Hospital, Leicester, in 1760.
[2] Ludlam's brother William held unpopular views on the Holy Spirit, and Thomas supported them in his Four Essays.
A savage controversialist, he was charged by Isaac Milner with "treating men as fanatics, enthusiasts, and rejecters of reason, or as sly, artful, and designing characters, because they venture to think for themselves in religious matters".