Tuke family

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

See also

• "John Tuke, of the city of York, linen-draper, dealer, and chapman" announced on list of "B_K_TS"
• Tuke pedigree

Sources

• Willam K Sessions and E.Margaret Sessions (1971) The Tukes of York in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Ebor Press, York. (Includes family tree of 12 generations, pp. 116–117.)