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religious faith he is an Episco])alian. Dr. Upsluir is unmarried.

' Beverley Randolph Tucker, M. D. The

histor\- of the Tucker family covers a period of three centuries in the western world, and ir Virginia dates from the year 1771. when St. George Tucker came from his native island. Bermuda, and entered William and Mary College to complete his education. The family traces through several gener- ations in England, down to Daniel Tucker, who in 1616 was governor of IJermuda. His son, George Tucker, died in Bermuda about 1662. He married PTances. daughter of Sir Henry St. George, from whom came the name, St. George, common in the \^irginia family. A grandson of George Tucker. Colo- nel Henry Tucker, born in 1713. died in 1787. married Xancy Butterlield and had issue including St. George Tucker, the founder of the \Trginia family, who was a })atriot during the revolution, sat as a delegate in the Continental Congress of 1787-88, and was a member of the first two congresses under the federal constitution, and Henry Tucker, who settled in North Carolina ; died in Washington. D. C. in 1828, having served as treasurer of the United States from December i. 1801.

( I ) Judge St. George Tucker, born on the island of Bermuda. July 10, 1752, died in Warminster, Nelson county, Virginia. No- vember 10, 1828. He came to Virginia in 1 77 1, graduated at William and Mary Col- lege in 1772. finished a course of law and began practice in the colonial courts. He returned to Bermuda in 1775 but came again to \'irginia in January. 1777. and bore arms in defense of the colonies, serving as lieu- tenant-colonel at Yorktown. On September 3, 1778, he married Frances Bland, widow of John Randolph, and mother of John Randolph, of Roanoke. After the war ( 1787) he was appointed judge of the general court of Mrginia. and in 1789 professor of law at \\'illiam and Mary, succeeding Chancellor George Wythe. He was appointed in 1804, president judge of the Virginia court of ap- peals, and in 1813. judge of the United States district court of X^irginia. Judge Tucker was also a poet and left several dramas, tragedy and comedy, and several minor poems, some of them gems. He also wrote a volume of political satires. 'Tn Two Parts" (1796). The same year he pviblished

'"Dissertions on Slavery, with a Proposition for its Gradual Abolition in X'irginia ;" and later other letters and essays. William and Mary conferred the degree of LL. D. on him in 1790. His second son. Nathaniel Bever- ley Tucker, generally known as Beverley, was a graduate of William and Mary, judge of the circuit court in Missouri, later re- turned to Virginia ; was professor of law at William and Mary in 1834 until his death in 1 85 1. As a writer he excelled any of his \'irginia contemporaries. His most remark- able work is : "The Partisan Leader ; A Tale of the Future," published by Edward Wil- liam Sidney. (2 volumes. New York. 1836). This was printed secretly, bearing the fic- titious date 1856, and purported to be a historical novel of the period between 1836 and that year. In its accurate delineations of the events between 1861 and 1865. it seems almost prophetic. He was a voluminous writer and maintained an extensive corre- spondence with scholars and statesmen.

(H) Henry St. George Tucker, eldest son of Judge St. George Tucker, was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, December 29. 1780. died in Winchester. Virginia, August 28, 1848. He was educated at the college of William and Mary and became a lawyer, settling in XX'inchester, in 1802. He was a volunteer ofificer in the war of 1812, served as congressman, 1815 to 1819; state senator 1819 to 1823; chancellor of the state of Vir- ginia. 1 824- 1 83 1, when he was made presi- dent judge of the \"irginia court of appeals ; resigned in 1841 to become professor of law at the University of \"irginia ; resigned in 1845 because of ill health. He was tendered the attorney-generalship of the United States by President Jackson, but declined. While chancellor he established a success- ful private law school in Winchester. W^il- liam and Mary College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1837. He published "Commentaries on the Law of \Trginia" (2 volumes, 1836-37) ; "Lectures on Constitu- tional Law" ( 1844) ; "Lectures on Natural Law and Government" (1844). He married in 1807, Ann Evaline, daughter of Moses and Anne (Stephens) Hunter, and had twelve children.

(HI) The eighth child of Henry St. George Tucker. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, was born in Winchester. Mrginia. June 8, 1820. died July 15. 1890. He was educated at the Universitv of \'irginia. founded the