Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall, 7th Baronet, FRSE FSA(Scot) (13 August 1784 – 29 May 1848) was a Scottish author. He served as Secretary to the Board of Manufactures (1839-), on the Herring Fisheries Board, at the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts, and as Deputy Lieutenant of both counties of Moray and Haddington.
He was the only son of Sir Andrew Dick-Lauder, 6th Baronet, whom he succeeded in 1820.
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