Henry Tuke

{{Short description|English mental health reformer (1755–1814)}} {{For|his great-grandson, the painter|Henry Scott Tuke}} {{More citations needed|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}}

'''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.<ref>'''Birth''': "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841" Reference: RG6/1120 [https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=TNA%2FRG6%2F1120%2F0%2F0132&parentid=TNA%2FRG6%2FBAP%2F1616368 FindMyPast Image] - [https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=TNA%2FRG6%2FBAP%2F1616368 FindMyPast Transcription] (accessed 29 October 2022) Henry Tuke born 24 Mar 1755, son of William & Elizabeth, in York, Yorkshire, England.</ref><ref>'''Burial''': "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841" Reference: RG6/882 [https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=TNA%2FRG6%2F0882%2F0%2F0036&parentid=TNA%2FRG6%2FBUR%2F749483 FindMyPast Image] - [https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=TNA%2FRG6%2FBUR%2F749483 FindMyPast Transcription] (accessed 29 October 2022) Henry Tuke burial (died on 11 Aug 1814 at age 59) on 16 Aug 1814 in York, Yorkshire, England.</ref>

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.<ref name="AI6">{{cite book|title=Sixth Report of the Committee of the African Institution|date=1812|publisher=African Institution|location=London|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=y6ERAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR5}}</ref>

==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.<ref name = "gleason" > {{Cite book | last = Gleason | first = Hall | title = Old Ships and Ship-Building Days of Medford | publisher = J.C. Miller | year = 1937 | location = Medford, MA | page = 57}} </ref>

==See also== *Tuke family

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