Charles Molesworth Tuke (23 May 1857 – 24 January 1925) was an English surgeon, working in the field of psychiatric care, and

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er.

Life

He was born in

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, the son of

Thomas Harrington Tuke Thomas Harrington Tuke FRCPE FRCP (13 June 1826 - 1888) was a British physician who specialised in psychiatry. He ran and enlarged the private Manor House Asylum in Chiswick (founded by his father Edward Francis Tuke), published papers on gene ...

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/ref> Educated at St. Paul's School, London, Tuke became a medical student at

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. He obtained a surgical diploma in 1881, and began work as a clinical assistant at

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. In time he worked at the family-run Manor House Asylum, at Manor Farm House, Chiswick Lane, Chiswick, with his brother Thomas Seymour Tuke (1856–1917). After their father's death in 1888, the brothers moved the asylum to leased space at

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, with a change of name to Chiswick Asylum. They were recorded as tenants there by 1892. By then, the lease to

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had ended, and artworks belonging to the owner,

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, had been moved to

Chatsworth House Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the House of Cavendish, Cavendish family sin ...

. Tuke ran Chiswick Asylum alone, in the 1920s. He died in Chiswick. His widow resided at Chiswick House until 1929.

Cricket career

Active as a cricketer 1882–90, Tuke played for

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. He appeared in eight first-class matches.

Family

Tuke married in 1883 Mary Ella Wylde, second daughter of William Henry Wylde.

References

External links

''Tuke of Chiswick'', historyof.place
1857 births 1925 deaths English surgeons English psychiatrists English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub