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 TUCKER TUCKERMAN 23 entitled " The Country Gentleman's Advice to his Son on the Subject of Party Clubs." About this time he began his great work, " The Light of Nature Pursued, by Edward Search," four volumes of which were published in 1765 ; but a part of it had already appeared in 1763 under the title of " Free Will." In reply to a criti- cism on the work in the " Monthly Review," lie wrote " Man in Quest of Himself, by Cuth- bert Comment." He became blind in 1771, but continued to work upon his " Light of Nature Pursued," the remaining volumes of which were edited by his daughter, after his death. The best edition is that of Sir Henry Mildmay (7 vols. 8vo, 1805 ; 4 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1831 ; 2 vols., London, 1852). . TUCKER, Josian, a British clergyman, born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, in 1711, died in Gloucester, Nov. 4, 1799. He was educated at Oxford, took orders, and in 1749 became rector of St. Stephen's, Bristol, and in 1758 dean of Gloucester. He published " A Brief Essay upon the Advantages and Disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great Britain with regard to Trade " (1748) ; " The Case of going to War for the sake of Trade, considered in a new Light " (1763), a pamphlet, translated into French by Turgot; "A Trea- tise concerning Civil Government " (1781) ; and " Reflections on the Present Matters in Dispute between Great Britain and Ireland" (1785). At the American revolution he re- sisted the claims of the colonies, but opposed coercion, as he believed that the possession of colonies was detrimental to the interests of a country. In theology he published an " Apolo- gy for the present Church of England," "Let- ters to Dr. Kippis," " Religious Intolerance no part of the General Plan either of the Mosaic or Christian Dispensation," and "Seventeen Sermons on some of the most important Points of Natural and Revealed Religion." TUCKER. I. St. George, an American jurist, born in the island of Bermuda, June 29, 1752, died in Nelson co., Va., in November, 1827. He was educated at the college of William and Mary, and studied law, but on the breaking out of the revolutionary war took up arms, and planned and aided in the capture of a large amount of stores in a fortification at Bermuda. In 1778 he married Mrs. Randolph, the mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. At the siege of Yorktown he was present as a lieutenant colonel. After the conclusion of the war he was elected a member of the general court, and was also law professor in William and Mary college. He was one of the commissioners to the convention of 1786 at Annapolis, Md., and recommended the convention of 1787 which framed the federal constitution. In 1803 he was appointed judge of the court of appeals, and in 1813 of the district court of the United States. He published " How far the Common Law of England is the Common Law of the United States;" "Dissertation on Slavery, with a Proposal for its Gradual Abolition in Vir- ginia" (1796; new ed., New York, 1861); a letter on the "Alien and Sedition Laws" (1799) ; an annotated edition of Blackstone's " Commentaries;" and a volume of poems, in- cluding the well known and popular " Days of my Youth." II. Henry St. George, an American jurist, son of the preceding, born Jan. 5, 1781, died in Winchester, Va., Aug. 28, 1848. He received a liberal education, studied law, and became president of the court of appeals and professor of law in the university of Virginia. From 1815 to 1819 he was a member of con- gress. His works include "Lectures on Con- stitutional Law;" "Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia" (2 vols. 8vo, Winchester, 1836); and "Lectures on Natural Law and Govern- ment" (Richmond, 1843). III. Nathaniel BCT- erley, an American lawyer, brother of the pre- ceding, born at Matoax, Va., Sept. 6, 1784, died in Winchester, Aug. 26, 1851. He was educa- ted at William and Mary college, studied law, and in 1809 settled in Charlotte co., and in 1815 in Missouri, where he became a judge. From 1834 till his death he was professor of law in William and Mary college. He published a work on "Pleading," "Lectures on Consti- tutional Law," and novels entitled " George Balcombe " and " Gertrude." He left an un- finished novel called "The Partisan Leader," first published in 1837, and reprinted in New York in 1861, under the leading title "A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy." Tl(KKini, Henry Theodore, an American author, born in Boston, April 20, 1813, died in New York, Dec. 17, 1871. In 1833 and again in 1836 he went abroad, residing for some time in Italy and devoting himself to literature and art studies. In 1845 he removed from Boston to New York. He was a regular and frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, in which the bulk of his works originally appeared. He published "The Italian Sketch Book" (1835); "Sicily, a Pilgrimage" (1839); "Rambks and Reveries " (1841) ; " Thoughts on the Poets " (1846), devoted chiefly to masters of the Eng- lish school (translated into German by Emil M tiller) ; " Artist Life, or Sketches of American Painters" (1847); "Characteristics of Litera- ture" (1849; 2d series, 1851); "The Opti- mist " (1850), a collection of miscellaneous es- says; a "Life of Commodore Silas Talbot" (1851) ; "Poems" (1851) ; " A Month in Eng- land" (1853); "Memorial of Horatio Green- ough" (1853); "Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer" (1853); "Essays, Biographical and Critical" (1857); "Essay on Washington, with a Paper on the Portraits of Washington" (1859); "America and her Commentators" (1864); "A Sheaf of Verse" (1864); "The Criterion, or the Test of Talk about Familiar Things" (1866); "Maga: Papers about Paris " (1867); "The Book of American Artists" (1867); and "Life of John Pendleton Ken- nedy" (1871). TUCKERMiN, Joseph, an American clergyman, born in Boston, Jan. 18, 1778, died in Havana,