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Last name Tuke
First name Samuel
Display name Samuel Tuke
Birth date 1784
Death date 1857
Birth place york2
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, London Yearly meeting
Bio notes Quaker philanthropist and mental-health reformer. Son of Henry and Mary Maria (Scott) Tuke. Educated at Girl's School, York. Much influenced by Lindley Murray. 1835-41 served as Clerk of London Yearly Meeting. Wrote memoirs of early friends, managed hospitals, was active in anti-slavery. Founder of the Bootham and the Mount Schools and The Friends Provident Institution. Published an account of the "Retreat for the Insane" in England in 1813, friend of Lindley Murray, correspondant of Thomas Eddy.

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Life of Thomas Eddy