The Tuke family of
York
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were a family of
Quaker
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innovators involved in establishing:
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Rowntree's
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Cocoa Works
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The Retreat Mental Hospital
*three Quaker schools –
Ackworth,
Bootham
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History
The street runs along a ridge of slightly higher ground east of the River Ouse, Yo ...
, and
The Mount
They included four generations. The main Tukes were:
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William Tuke III (1732–1822), founder of
The Retreat at York, one of the first modern insane asylums, in 1792
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Henry Tuke (1755–1814)
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Samuel Tuke (1784–1857)
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James Hack Tuke (1819–1896)
Others included:
*Ann (Tuke) Alexander (1767–1849), daughter of
William Tuke III and Esther Tuke, born at York. A pupil of
Lindley Murray
Lindley Murray (1745 – 16 February 1826) was an American Quaker lawyer, writer, and grammarian, best known for his English-language grammar books used in schools in England and the United States.
Murray practised law in New York. As the ...
. In 1796 she married
William Alexander of Needham Market in Suffolk, who was one of the Friends associated with her father in the founding of
The Retreat Mental Hospital. On the death of her husband in 1841 she moved to Ipswich until she died in 1849.
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William Murray Tuke (1822–1903), who gained his second name from
Lindley Murray
Lindley Murray (1745 – 16 February 1826) was an American Quaker lawyer, writer, and grammarian, best known for his English-language grammar books used in schools in England and the United States.
Murray practised law in New York. As the ...
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Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), was a prominent campaigner for humane treatment of the insane
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Dame Margaret Jansen Tuke, D.B.E., M.A. (1862–1947) Principal of Bedford College, London University
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Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), British painter and photographer, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys and young men, which have earned him a status as a pioneer of gay male culture
See also
*"John Tuke, of the city of York, linen-draper, dealer, and chapman" announced on list of
"B_K_TS"Tuke pedigree
References
Sources
*Willam K Sessions and E.Margaret Sessions (1971) ''The Tukes of York in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'' Ebor Press, York. (Includes family tree
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Representations of ...
of 12 generations, pp. 116–117.)
External links
History of York: Tuke family and Rowntree's
Prison Visiting in 1819 – Communicated by Arthur J. Eddington\
Alexander, Ann, 1767-1849, née Tuke, Quaker minister
English families
Tuke family (York)
Quaker families
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