James Tuder or Tudor Nelthorpe (c.1784 - 11 June 1868) was an English local magistrate and landowner, principally active as a

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, West Sussex. 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. By the 1840s he held almost 900 acres in total in his estates in Nuthurst and Little Broadwater. As of the 1841 census he was living at Nuthurst Lodge with the family of

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, then

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, who later served as one of the executors to Nelthorpe's will.''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995'', 1868, page 172

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1780s births 1868 deaths English justices of the peace People from Horsham District People from Broadwater, West Sussex {{England-law-bio-stub