Thomas Flucker (1719-1783)

He was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and came to Boston as merchant, acquiring a large estate on Summer Street. He was commissioned a Justice of the Peace (1756) and was appointed (1761) to the Governor's Council. In 1770, he succeeded Andrew Oliver to become the last Royal Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts. He left Boston in 1776 and settled in London where he was a member of the Brompton Row Tory Club. In 1744, he married Judith, youngest daughter of James Bowdoin, and they had one son who reached adulthood. In 1751, he married Hannah, daughter of Gen. Samuel Waldo and they had three daughters. He and his second wife had their portraits painted by Copley and died in London.