About Henry Tuke
Lived 1755 – 1814 (aged 58–59). Henry Tuke was a British writer.
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.
He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and French.
He was a subscriber to the African Institution, the body which set out to create a viable, civilized refuge for freed slaves in Sierra Leone, Africa.
Historic ship The 1824 ship Henry Tuke, 365 tons, was built by Thatcher Magoun in Medford, MA, and owned by Daniel Pinckney Parker and John Chandler, Jr. It was a whaler in Warren, RI in 1846.
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Who was Henry Tuke?
English mental health reformer
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Henry Tuke was born in 1755.
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Henry Tuke died in 1814.
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Henry Tuke was a writer.
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Henry Tuke was British.
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