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William Murray Tuke
William Murray Tuke (1822-1903), was a British tea merchant and banker. Early life William Murray Tuke was born in 1822, the son of Samuel Tuke and Priscilla Hack, the daughter of James Hack of Chichester, and his wife, Hannah Jeffreys. Wikisource:Tuke, Samuel (1784-1857) (DNB00) Career Tuke was a tea merchant and a banker. He had a "substantial tea business in York". Personal life He married Emma Williams (1822-1908) Their son William Favill Tuke (1863-1940) became a banker, serving as the Chairman of Barclays Bank Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces ... from 1934 to 1936. Death Tuke died in 1903. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuke, William Murray 1822 births 1903 deaths British bankers William Murray Businesspeople in tea 19th-century British businesspeople [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Tuke (reformer)
Samuel Tuke (31 July 1784 – 14 October 1857) was a Quaker philanthropist and mental-health reformer. He was born in York, England. Early life Samuel was part of a Quaker family. He was the son of Henry Tuke and the grandson of William Tuke, who founded the York Retreat. Career He greatly advanced the cause of the amelioration of the condition of the insane, and devoted himself largely to the York Retreat. The methods of treatment pursued there were made more widely known by his ''Description of the Retreat near York''. In this work Samuel Tuke referred to the Retreat's methods as moral treatment, borrowed from the French "traitement moral" being used to describe the work of Jean-Baptiste Pussin and Philippe Pinel in France (and in the original French referring more to morale in the sense of the emotions and self-esteem, rather than rights and wrongs). Samuel Tuke also published ''Practical Hints on the Construction and Economy of Pauper Lunatic Asylums'' (1815). Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuke, Samuel (1784-1857) (DNB00) (1784–1857), Yorkshire-born Quaker philanthropist and mental-health reformer
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Samuel Tuke may refer to: *Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c.1615–1674), English Royalist officer, playwright and nobleman *Samuel Tuke (reformer) Samuel Tuke (31 July 1784 – 14 October 1857) was a Quaker philanthropist and mental-health reformer. He was born in York, England. Early life Samuel was part of a Quaker family. He was the son of Henry Tuke and the grandson of William Tuke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclays Bank
Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces its origins to the goldsmith banking business established in the City of London in 1690. James Barclay became a partner in the business in 1736. In 1896, twelve banks in London and the English provinces, including Goslings Bank, Backhouse's Bank and Gurney's Bank, Gurney, Peckover and Company, united as a joint-stock company, joint-stock bank under the name Barclays and Co. Over the following decades, Barclays expanded to become a nationwide bank. In 1967, Barclays deployed the world's first Automated teller machine, cash dispenser. Barclays has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including of London, Provincial and South Western Bank in 1918, British Linen Bank in 1919, Mercantile Credit in 1975, the Woolwich in 2000 and the North Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1822 Births
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1903 Deaths
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British Bankers
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Tuke Family Of York
Tuke may refer to: People * Tuke family, a Quaker family from York, England ** Blair Tuke (born 1989), New Zealand Olympic sailor ** Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), a prominent campaigner for humane treatment of the insane ** Henry Tuke Henry Tuke (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, William Tuke, the Retreat asylum in York, England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on Quaker principles.Burial: "England & Wales, ... (1755–1814) ** Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929), British painter and photographer ** James Hack Tuke (1819–1896) ** Margaret Tuke (1862–1947), Principal of Bedford College, London University ** Samuel Tuke (reformer) (1784–1857) ** William Tuke III (1732–1822), founder of The Retreat at York ** William Murray Tuke (1822–1903), tea merchant and banker, son of Samuel Tuke, father of W. F. Tuke * Anthony Tuke (1920–2001), chairman of Barclays Bank and Rio Tinto Zinc, son of A. W. Tuke, grandso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Businesspeople In Tea
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