{{short description|English merchant and mariner}} {{for|the American painter and printmaker|Thomas Brownell Eldred}} [[File:Thomas Eldred's House, Fore Street, Ipswich 1888.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Interior of house in Fore Street, from ''In and About Ancient Ipswich'' by John Ellor Taylor and Percy Stimpson]] '''Thomas Eldred''' (1561–1624) was an English merchant and mariner.<ref name=OXON>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101008616/ Thomas Eldred's biography]. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref><ref name=IPS>[http://www.ipswichsociety.org.uk/plaques/index.php Thomas Eldred's blue plaque]. The Ipswich Society. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref> He is notable for having sailed with Thomas Cavendish on the ship ''Desire'', during the second English circumnavigation of the globe between 1586 and 1588.<ref name=IPS/>
He lived at 97 Fore Street, Ipswich, and was commemorated by a pub with his name, until it was removed in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bunn|first=Matt|date=2012-04-20|title=Ipswich: Thomas Eldred pub is torn down|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ipswich-thomas-eldred-pub-is-torn-down-2034172|access-date=2021-12-07|website=East Anglian Daily Times|language=en-UK}}</ref>
He was buried in the churchyard of St Clement's Church.<ref name="SC">{{cite web |title=St Clement, Ipswich |url=http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stclementipswich.htm |website=www.suffolkchurches.co.uk |publisher=Churches of East Anglia |access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>
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