The Tuke family of

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were a family of

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innovators involved in establishing: *

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Cocoa Works * The Retreat Mental Hospital *three Quaker schools - Ackworth,

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, and The Mount They included four generations. The main Tukes were: * William Tuke III (1732-1822), founder of The Retreat at York, one of the first modern insane asylums, in 1792 *

Henry Tuke Henry Tuke (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, William Tuke, the Retreat asylum in York, England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on Quaker principles.Burial: "England & Wale ...

(1755-1814) *

Samuel Tuke Samuel Tuke may refer to: *Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c.1615–1674), English Royalist officer, playwright and nobleman *Samuel Tuke (reformer) Samuel Tuke (31 July 1784 – 14 October 1857) was a Quaker philanthropist and mental-health ref ...

(1784-1857) * James Hack Tuke (1819-1896) Others included: *

William Murray Tuke William Murray Tuke (1822-1903), was a British tea merchant and banker. Early life William Murray Tuke was born in 1822, the son of Samuel Tuke and Priscilla Hack, the daughter of James Hack of Chichester, and his wife, Hannah Jeffreys. Wikisour ...

(1822-1903), who gained his second name from Lindley Murray *

Dame Margaret Jansen Tuke Dame Margaret Janson Tuke (13 March 1862, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England21 February 1947, Hitchin) was a British academic and educator. She was the youngest child of the philanthropist James Hack Tuke. She was created a Dame Commander of the Ord ...

, D.B.E., M.A. (1862-1947) Principal of Bedford College, London University *

Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young ...

(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 * Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), was a prominent campaigner for humane treatment of the insane

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*Willam K Sessions and E.Margaret Sessions (1971) ''The Tukes of York in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'' Ebor Press, York. (Includes

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of 12 generations, pp. 116–117.)

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History of York: Tuke family and Rowntree's
English families Tuke family of York Quaker families {{UK-hist-stub

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