Thomas Boddington

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Thomas Boddington was a political activist in London in the late eighteenth century. He lived in Clapton, then in Middlesex. He was involved in the slave trade. He was a director of the Bank of England and was on the Board of the London Dock Company. He worked at the Board of Ordnance based at the Tower of London from 1770, where he was the direct superior of Granville Sharp^[1].

Boddington was a slave owner active as part of the West India lobby, but also participated in other committees: The Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and the Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.

In 1799 he was involved in setting up the School for the Indigent Blind, St George's Fields, Southwark.

His daughter married Isaac Hawkins Browne, MP.