Author: Tucker, Nathaniel
Biography:
TUCKER, Nathaniel (1750-1807: ancestry.co.uk)
Born in Saint George, Bermuda, to Anne (Butterfield) and Col. Henry Tucker, a merchant and plantation owner, he had five siblings including St. George Tucker and Henry Tucker (qq.v.). He moved to Charleston SC to study medicine before moving to Edinburgh and Leyden. On 5 Sept. 1791 he married Jane Wood in St. Mary, York; they lived in Hull and had one child, Abel, who was born in 1792 but died in 1798. The family lived in Malton, Yorkshire, and in Hull where he practiced medicine. Aside from the works listed in the database, he published translations of works by Swedenborg and, on his death at Hull, he left the manuscript of a masque, “Columbinus.” He had begun a long poem, "America Delivered," but it was never completed. He died on 28 Nov. 1807 and was buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Kingston upon Hull, with his son. The 1808 subscription edition of The Bermudian was published to benefit Jane Tucker. A collected edition of his work was edited by Lewis Leary and published in 1973. (ancestry.co.uk 27 Nov. 2020; WorldCat) SR
Other Names:
- N. Tucker