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The Tuke family of York were family of Quaker innovators involved in establishing:

  • Rowntree's Cocoa Works
  • The Retreat Mental Hospital
  • three Quaker schools - Ackworth, Bootham, and The Mount
  • They included four generations. The main Tukes were:

  • William Tuke III (1732-1822), founder of The Retreat at York, one of the first modern insane asylums, in 1792
  • Henry Tuke (1755-1814)
  • Samuel Tuke (1784-1857)
  • James Hack Tuke (1819-1896)
  • Hannah Tuke (1811-1869)
  • Others included:

  • John Tuke (cartographer and surveyor)
  • William Murray Tuke (1822-1903), who gained his second name from Lindley Murray
  • Dame Margaret Jansen Tuke, D.B.E., M.A. (1862-1947) Principal of Bedford College, London University
  • Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), British painter and photographer, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys and young men, which have earned him a status as a pioneer of gay male culture
  • Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), was a prominent campaigner for humane treatment of the insane
  • References

    Tuke family Wikipedia


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