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{{Infobox military person
| name = Sir Thomas Teddeman
| image =AdmiralTeddiman.jpg
| caption =''Thomas Teddeman'' by [[Peter Lely]], 1666, part of the [[Flagmen of Lowestoft]] series
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| death_date = 13 May 1668
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| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = [[Royal Navy]]
| serviceyears = ?–1668
| rank = [[Vice-admiral]] 
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| commands = {{HMS|Resolution|1654|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Fairfax|1660|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Kent|1653|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Revenge|1654|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Swiftsure|1621|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Cambridge|1666|6}}
| battles = [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654)|Anglo-Spanish War]]<br/>[[Second Anglo-Dutch War]]
*[[Battle of Lowestoft]]
*[[Battle of Vågen]]
*[[Four Days Battle]]
*[[St James's Day Battle]]
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'''Sir Thomas Teddeman''' († 13 May 1668 [[Old Style]]) was an English [[admiral]] of the 17th century. His name was also written as ''Teddiman'', ''Tyddiman'' or ''Teddyman''.

The early career of Thomas Teddeman is unknown; he was not a naval captain during the [[First Anglo-Dutch War]]. He was the namesake of his father, who descended from a family of ship-owners in [[Dover]]. His cousin was the naval captain [[Henry Teddeman]].

Teddeman, first serving the [[English Commonwealth]], commanded from 1659 till 1660 the ''Tredagh'' (after the [[English Restoration]] renamed to {{HMS|Resolution|1654|6}}) in the Mediterranean during the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654)|Anglo-Spanish War]]. From 31 May till 10 June 1660 he chased six Spanish vessels he encountered off [[Algiers]]. In May 1661 he became captain of {{HMS|Fairfax|1660|6}} and in 1663 commanded {{HMS|Kent|1653|6}} on which he brought the English ambassador to [[Russia]], the [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle|Earl of Carlisle]], to [[Arkhangelsk|Archangel]] in July. In May 1664 Teddeman was made commander of {{HMS|Revenge|1654|6}} and the same year promoted to captain of {{HMS|Swiftsure|1621|6}}. In 1665, during the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]], he distinguished himself as [[rear admiral]] of the Blue Squadron in the [[Battle of Lowestoft]], with as flagship the new second rate {{HMS|Royal Katherine}}, and was knighted on 30 June (Old Style).

In August 1665 Teddeman was sent on the ''Revenge'' to [[Bergen]] to capture a Dutch treasure fleet with a flotilla of frigates but was defeated in the [[Battle of Vågen]] by [[Commandeur]] [[Pieter de Bitter]]. Though this was a major disappointment to [[Charles II of England]], Teddeman's career did not suffer much and he fought, again on the ''Katherine'', the next year as [[vice admiral]] of the Blue in the [[Four Days Battle]] and as vice-admiral of the White in the [[St James's Day Battle]]. In 1667 Teddeman had no command, the main vessels of the English fleet having been laid up. In 1668 he commanded on {{HMS|Cambridge|1666|6}}, but was the subject of an investigation by [[English Parliament]], trying to establish the causes of the lost war, by which he was much troubled. On 13 May he died from a fever caused by a thrush in the mouth.

==Literature==
R.C. Anderson, 1964, ''List of English Naval Captains 1642–1660''

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