# Henry Tuke

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{{Short description|English mental health reformer (1755–1814)}}
{{For|his great-grandson, the painter|Henry Scott Tuke}}
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'''Henry Tuke''' (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, [William Tuke](/source/William_Tuke), [the Retreat](/source/the_Retreat) asylum in [York](/source/York), England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on [Quaker](/source/Quaker) principles.<ref>'''Birth''': "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841"<br/>Reference: RG6/1120<br/>[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)<br/>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"<br/>Reference: RG6/882<br/>[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)<br/>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](/source/African_Institution), the body which set out to create a viable, civilized refuge for freed slaves in [Sierra Leone](/source/Sierra_Leone), [Africa](/source/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](/source/Thatcher_Magoun_(clipper)) in [Medford](/source/Medford%2C_Massachusetts), MA, and owned by [Daniel Pinckney Parker](/source/Daniel_Pinckney_Parker) and John Chandler, Jr. It was a whaler in [Warren](/source/Warren%2C_Rhode_Island), 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](/source/Tuke_family)

==References==
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