Died 13 November 1811 | ||
Education St John's College, Cambridge Books Logical Tracts: Comprising Observations and Essays Illustrative of Mr. Locke's Treatise Upon the Human Understanding | ||
Thomas Ludlam (1727–1811) was an English clergyman, known as a theologian and essayist.
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Life
Born at Leicester, he was younger brother to William Ludlam. He graduated B.A. at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1748, and spent some time as chaplain in the Royal Navy, on 31 May 1750 appointed to the HMS Prince Henry. In January 1750 he was in Sierra Leone, of which his nephew, also called Thomas Ludlam, was subsequently to become governor. He proceeded M.A. in 1752.
Ludlum was appointed by the assistance of John Jackson confrater of Wigston's Hospital, Leicester, in 1760. In 1791 he became rector of Foston, Leicestershire. He died at Leicester on 13 November 1811.
Works
Ludlam attacked the Calvinistic writers of his day in the Orthodox Churchman's Review. He was a disciple of John Locke, and applied Locke's principles to religious discussion. Bishop Richard Hurd, on seeing his first essay, had his second to be printed at his own expense.
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".
Ludlam wrote:
Most of these essays are in Essays, Scriptural, Moral, and Logical, by William and Thomas Ludlam, 1807; 2nd edit. 1809.