Thomas Rudyard was a Quaker lawyer in London before moving to America and being appointed deputy governor of East Jersey and the first Attorney General of the English Province of New York, the predecessor position to the Attorney General of New York State and the successor position to an analogous office under the Dutch colonial government of New Netherlands.
- Position held
- Governor of East Jersey, Attorney General of Colonial New York
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1640
- Died
- November 2, 1692