James Tuder or Tudor Nelthorpe (c.1784 - 11 June 1868) was an English local magistrate and landowner, principally active as a Justice of the Peace in Nuthurst, West Sussex.A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Nuthurst: Manor and other estates', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3, Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) Including Crawley New Town, ed. T P Hudson (London, 1987), pp. 101-103., British History Online
Born James Cowne, he took on the surnames Tudor/Tuder and Nelthorpe on inheriting the estate of Sedgwick manor in Little Broadwater from his aunt Elizabeth Nelthorpe.B.L. Add. MS. 39502, f. 12Dallaway & Cartwright, Hist. W. Suss. ii (2), 360-1Horsham Museum MS. SP 133. By the 1840s he held almost 900 acres in total in his estates in Nuthurst and Little Broadwater.West Sussex Record Office, TD/W 21, 92. As of the 1841 census he was living at Nuthurst Lodge with the family of Richard Mayne,1841 England census (HO 107/1097/5) then Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who later served as one of the executors to Nelthorpe's will.The London Gazette, 5 January 1869, page 72England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, 1868, page 172
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