James Tuder Nelthorpe Explained

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.^[1]

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.^{[2] [3] [4]} By the 1840s he held almost 900 acres in total in his estates in Nuthurst and Little Broadwater.^[5] As of the 1841 census he was living at Nuthurst Lodge with the family of Richard Mayne,^[6] then Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who later served as one of the executors to Nelthorpe's will.^{[7] [8]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt3/pp101-103 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.
2. [British Library|B.L.]
3. Dallaway & Cartwright, Hist. W. Suss. ii (2), 360-1
4. [Horsham Museum]
5. [West Sussex Record Office]
6. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3761830 1841 England census (HO 107/1097/5)
7. The London Gazette, 5 January 1869, page 72
8. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, 1868, page 172