Thomas Tuke

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Thomas Tuke (c.1580–1657) was an English clergyman and controversial writer, of royalist views in later life.

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Life

He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1599 and commenced M.A. in 1603. [1] He was minister at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, London, in 1616. On 19 July 1617 he was presented by James I to the vicarage of St. Olave Jewry, and he held that living till 16 March 1642–3, when he was sequestered, plundered, and imprisoned for his adherence to the royalist cause .

In 1651 he was preaching at Tattershall, Lincolnshire. Richard Smyth, in his ‘Obituary’, notes that on 13 September 1657 ‘old Mr. Thomas Tuke, once minister at St. Olave's in the Old Jury, was buried at ye new chapell by the new markett place in Lincoln's Inn Fields.’ His wife Mary was buried at St. Olave's on 17 June 1654.

Works

Among his works are:

Title page from 1616 from A Treatise against painting and tincturing of Men and Women. Treatise against Painting and Tincturing.jpg
Title page from 1616 from A Treatise against painting and tincturing of Men and Women.

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Notes

  1. "Tuke, Thomas (TK599T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Attribution

Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Tuke, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.