Sir Thomas Bludder was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  variously between 1621 and 1640.

Bludder was the son of Sir Thomas Bludder of Flanchford Reigate, a commissioner of the Victualling Office. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge

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, in 1614 and graduated BA

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 in 1617. He was admitted to the Inner Temple

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 in 1616 and was knighted in 1618.

In 1621 Bludder was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Gatton

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. He was elected Member for Reigate

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 in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628. He sat until 1629, after which King Charles ruled without parliament for eleven years.

In April 1640, Bludder was again elected Member for Reigate in the Short Parliament

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. He was a benefactor of Christ's College.