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Tuckwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Barry Tuckwell AC, OBE (1931–2020), Australian horn player *Bertie Tuckwell (1882–1943), New Zealand cricketer * Gertrude Tuckwell (1861–1951), British trade unionist, social worker and author * Patricia Tuckwell, Countess of Harewood (1926–2018), Australian violinist and fashion model * Stephen Tuckwell GC, (1897–1966), awarded the George Cross for bomb disposal work during the Blitz * William Tuckwell (1829–1919), Victorian clergyman well known on political platforms *Zoe Tuckwell-Smith Zoë Tuckwell-Smith is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Bec Gilbert on the Australian television show ''Winners & Losers''. Early life Zoë Tuckwell-Smith was born in Sydney. Shortly after, her parents returned to Bang ...

Barry Tuckwell
Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, (5 March 1931 – 16 January 2020) was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States. He is generally considered to have been one of the world's leading horn players. Early life and education Barry Tuckwell was born on 5 March 1931 in Melbourne, son of Charles Tuckwell, an organist, and his wife Elizabeth. 5 March is known by many as the Horn Duumvirate Date, as it was the birth date of both Tuckwell and Philip Farkas, both highly regarded horn players. He had an older sister, Patricia, a violinist and fashion model widely known as Bambi. She married the photographer Athol Shmith and later George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. After studying the piano, organ and violin as a chorister at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Tuckwell was introduced to the French horn at age 13 and was playing professionally within six months. He studied at the Sydney Conservato ...
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Bertie Tuckwell
Bertie Joseph Tuckwell (6 October 1882 – 2 January 1943) was an Australian-born cricketer who played first-class cricket in Australia and New Zealand. Born in Melbourne, Tuckwell played three first-class matches for Victoria in 1903. On his first-class debut in 1902-03, in Victoria's first-ever match against Queensland,E. H. M. Baillie "B. J. Tuckwell Dies in New Zealand" '' Sporting Globe'', 24 February 1942, p. 13. he scored 93 not out, batting at number seven, before Victoria declared. Victoria won by an innings. He moved to New Zealand and continued his cricket career, playing for Otago and Wellington. He toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1913-14, and later that season he played for New Zealand against the touring Australian team in New Zealand. In the first of the two international matches, batting at number three, he top-scored for New Zealand in the first innings with 50, but he was omitted from the team for the second match.Don Neely & Richard Payn ...
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Gertrude Tuckwell
Gertrude Mary Tuckwell (1861–1951) was an English trade unionist, social worker, author, and magistrate. Early life and education Gertrude Mary Tuckwell was born in Oxford on 25 April 1861, the second daughter of Rosa née Strong (''b''. 1829/30) and William Tuckwell, master of New College School and chaplain at New College, Oxford and the self-proclaimed "radical parson". Her mother was the eldest daughter of Captain Henry Strong, an Indian army officer, whose younger sister, feminist and trade unionist Emilia Dilke, would have a profound effect on Tuckwell's life. Tuckwell had one brother and two sisters. She was home-schooled in her family's Christian socialist tradition and trained to be a teacher in Liverpool from 1881. Career Tuckwell was a teacher at Bishop Otter College in Chichester from 1882 to 1884, and then taught at a working-class infant school in Chelsea until forced to stop by ill health in 1890. From 1893, she became secretary to her maternal aunt, ...
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Patricia Tuckwell
Patricia Elizabeth Lascelles, Countess of Harewood (née Tuckwell, formerly Shmith; 24 November 1926 – 4 May 2018) was an Australian-British violinist and fashion model. She was the wife of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, eldest paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Early life and career Lascelles was born in Melbourne, the daughter of Charles Tuckwell, an organist, and his wife Elizabeth, and an older sister of Barry Tuckwell. After being educated privately, she pursued a career in music as a violinist for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She was also a fashion model and a favourite model of Athol Shmith, who became her first husband. While they were married, Patricia often modeled for him, under the name Bambi Smith. In 1951, she was one of the founders of the Mannequins' Association of Victoria. She ran the Bambi Smith Modelling College in Melbourne. Her alumnae include such notables as Roma Egan. After the opening of Melbourne's first television station, H ...
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Stephen Tuckwell
Stephen John Tuckwell, GC (4 June 1897 – 2 October 1966) was a sailor in the Royal Navy who awarded the George Cross for his "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" in bomb disposal work during the Blitz of late 1940. He was attached to and rendered many unexploded devices safe, including several parachute mines which fell onto the bank of the River Roding in Essex. George Cross AB Tuckwell worked closely with Sub-Lieutenant John Miller defusing and rendering safe numerous enemy bombs and mines. They were both awarded the George Cross for dealing with a parachute mine that had fallen into the soft mud bank of the Roding River, which runs into Barking Creek. Miller commandeered a canoe and having put this on a fire-float with the UXB kit, he and Tuckwell ventured out into the river. They then left the River Fire Service fire-float and went on in the canoe, until they sighted the black rim of the mine which was stuck in the mud by the nose. Tuckwell refused ...
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William Tuckwell
William Tuckwell (1829–1919), who liked to be known as the "radical parson", was an English Anglican clergyman well known on political platforms for his experiments in allotments, his advocacy of land nationalisation, and his enthusiasm for Christian socialism. He was an advocate of teaching science in the schools. Life Tuckwell was born on 27 November 1829. He was the eldest son of Margaret, ''née'' Wood (1803/4–1842) and William Tuckwell (1784–1845), a surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Tuckwell was educated at a preparatory school in Hammersmith before attending Winchester College from 1842 and New College, Oxford, in 1848. From 1857 to 1864 he was headmaster of New College School. In 1864 the Warden of New College, Oxford, nominated him as headmaster of Taunton Grammar School, later known as Taunton College School. It was recorded that his "energy and vitality" increased the size and quality of the school. In 1858 he married Rosa Strong (''b''. 1829/3 ...
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