Tucker, John, 1719-1792
Variant namesEpithet: Perpetual Curate of Lannarth
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Epithet: of Add MS 32731
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Epithet: of Salisbury
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Epithet: MP
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Epithet: MP for Weymouth
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Epithet: coxswain
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Reverend John Tucker (d 1873) was educated at Christ Church College Oxford where he was awarded a BA in 1813 and became a Fellow in 1817. He was ordained a deacon in 1818 and priest in 1819 and became minister of Southborough, Kent. In 1833 he went to South India as Secretary of the Madras Corresponding Committee 1833-1847. In 1847, on his return to England, he was appointed Secretary at the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Headquarters, a post he held until 1852. Between 1852 and 1873 he was vicar of West Hendred, Berkshire. He died in 1873. His sister, Sarah Tucker, wrote a number of early missionary books and the Sarah Tucker Institution in Palamcotta was founded in her memory.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905). ; ; and manuscript additions to register.
From the guide to the Tucker Manuscripts, 1828-1965, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
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associatedWith | Church Missionary Society | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Connecticut Historical Society. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | First Church of Newbury (Newbury, Mass.) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Houghton Library. | person |
associatedWith | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, collector. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | person |
associatedWith | Tucker John d 1873 | person |
correspondedWith | United States. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | United States Sanitary Commission | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Wingate, Paine, 1739-1838 | person |
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Kyle Park, Tipperary | |||
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Corsica, France | |||
China, Asia | |||
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire | |||
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Leith, Edinburgh | |||
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Kirkwall, Scotland | |||
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Caithness-shire, Scotland | |||
Grenada, the W. Indies | |||
New Forest, Hampshire |
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Missions India Madras |
Newbury (Mass.) |
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Person
Birth 1719
Death 1792