Thomas Whately

Thomas Whately (1726 – 1772) was a member of Parliament from the borough of Ludgershall in Wiltshire (1761-1768). During that time, he served as Secretary to the Treasury and sat as a member of the Board of Trade under Prime Minister George Grenville, authoring one of the most sophisticated defenses of the Stamp Act of 1765. In a letter dated 14 August 1766 to John Temple, he admitted to being “guilty of writing” the pamphlet entitled “The Regulations Lately Made.”