Benjamin Tucker
English civil servant
About Benjamin Tucker
Lived 1762 – 1829 (aged 66–67).
Benjamin Tucker (18 January 1762 – 11 December 1829) was an English civil servant. He served in the Royal Navy as a purser from 1792 to 1798 and was secretary to the senior naval officer John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, whom he served under for three more years, until St Vincent was made First Lord of the Admiralty in 1801; Tucker became his private secretary in 1802 and then briefly served as Second Secretary (i.e. Permanent Secretary) at the Admiralty in 1804. He was Second Secretary again from 1806 to 1807. From 1810, he was Surveyor-General of Duchy of Cornwall.
Personal life and legacy His brother Joseph Tucker was the master shipwright of Plymouth Dockyard.
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Who was Benjamin Tucker?
English civil servant (1762–1829)
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Benjamin Tucker was born in 1762.
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Benjamin Tucker died in 1829.
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