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People

Tuke family The Tuke family of York were a family of Quaker innovators involved in establishing: *Rowntree's Cocoa Works * The Retreat Mental Hospital *three Quaker schools - Ackworth, Bootham, and The Mount They included four generations. The main Tukes w ...

, a Quaker family from York, England **

Blair Tuke Andrew Blair Tuke (born 25 July 1989) is a New Zealand sailor who won the 2021 Americas Cup Held in Auckland and also won the 2017 Version held in Bermuda. He also won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the silver medal at the 201 ...

(born 1989), New Zealand Olympic sailor **

Daniel Hack Tuke Daniel Hack Tuke (19 April 18275 March 1895) was an English physician and expert on mental illness. Family Tuke came from a long line of Quakers from York who were interested in mental illness and concerned with those afflicted. His great-gr ...

(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 Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young ...

(1858–1929), British painter and photographer **

James Hack Tuke James Hack Tuke (13 September 1819 – 13 January 1896) was an English philanthropist. Life Born at York, England in into a Quaker family, he was the son of Samuel Tuke and his wife Priscilla Hack; their seventh child, he had Daniel Hack Tuke ...

(1819–1896) **

Margaret Tuke Dame Margaret Janson Tuke (13 March 1862, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England21 February 1947, Hitchin) was a British academic and educator. She was the youngest child of the philanthropist James Hack Tuke. She was created a Dame Commander of the Ord ...

(1862–1947), Principal of Bedford College, London University **

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, ...

(1784–1857) **

William Tuke William Tuke (24 March 1732 – 6 December 1822), an English tradesman, philanthropist and Quaker, earned fame for promoting more humane custody and care for people with mental disorders, using what he called gentler methods that came to be k ...

III (1732–1822), founder of The Retreat at York **

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. Wikisou ...

(1822–1903), tea merchant and banker, son of Samuel Tuke, father of W. F. Tuke *

Anthony Tuke Sir Anthony Favill Tuke (22 August 1920 – 6 March 2001) was chairman of Barclays Bank from 1973 to 1981 and Rio Tinto Zinc until 1985. Anthony Tuke was the son of A. W. "Iron" Tuke, chairman of Barclays from 1951 to 1962, and the grandson of ...

(1920–2001), chairman of Barclays Bank and Rio Tinto Zinc, son of A. W. Tuke, grandson of W. F. Tuke *

Anthony Tuke (1897–1975) Anthony William Tuke (24 February 1897 – 12 June 1975) was an English banker. He was the chairman of Barclays Bank from 1951 to 1962. Early life and family Anthony Wiliam Tuke was born in 1897, the son of W. F. Tuke, who was chairman of Barcl ...

, chairman of Barclays Bank, son of W. F. Tuke, father of Sir A. F. Tuke *

Benjamin Tuke Benjamin Burland Tuke (1870–1936) was an Irish rugby union halfback. Tuke played club rugby for Bective Rangers and played international rugby for Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland. Tuke played in nine internationals, most notably in a ...

(1870–1936), Ireland international rugby player * Bob Tuke (born 1947), American politician *

Brian Tuke Sir Brian Tuke (died 1545) was the secretary of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey. He became treasurer of the household. Life He may have been the son of Richard Tuke (died 1498?) and Agnes his wife, daughter of John Bland of Nottinghamshire. Th ...

(died 1545), secretary of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey *

Charles Tuke (architect) Maxwell and Tuke was an architectural practice in Northwest England, founded in 1857 by James Maxwell in Bury. In 1865 Maxwell was joined in the practice by Charles Tuke, who became a partner two years later. The practice moved its main office ...

(1843–1893), architect * John Batty Tuke (1835–1913), Scottish psychiatrist *

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c.1615, in Essex – 26 January 1674, in Somerset House, London) was an English officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War and a notable playwright. He is best known for his 1663 play ''The Adventures ...

(c. 1615–1674), English Royalist officer, playwright and nobleman *

Thomas Tuke Thomas Tuke (c.1580–1657) was an English clergyman and controversial writer, of royalist views in later life. Life He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1599 and commenced M.A. in 1603. He was minister at S ...

(c. 1580–1657), English clergyman and controversial writer *

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 ...

(1826–1888), British physician who specialised in psychiatry * W. F. Tuke (1863–1940), chairman of Barclays Bank

Other uses

* Tüke, Tatarstan, a place in Russia *

Tuke baronets The Tuke Baronetcy, of Cressing Temple in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 31 March 1664 for the Royalist army officer and playwright Samuel Tuke. The title became extinct on the death of the second ...

, a title in the Baronetage of England *

Tuke River The Tuke River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows northwest from the Southern Alps, combining with the Dickson River to form the Mikonui River 15 kilometres southeast of Ross. See also *List of river ...

, a river in New Zealand *

Technical University of Košice Technical University of Košice (Slovak: ''Technická univerzita v Košiciach'') is the second largest university of technology in Slovakia. University structure * Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology, * Faculty of Ma ...

, a college in Slovakia * ''Tuke'', what the Dani people call the plant

Karuka The karuka (''Pandanus julianettii'', also called karuka nut and ''Pandanus'' nut) is a species of tree in the family Pandanaceae and an important regional food crop in New Guinea. The nuts are more nutritious than coconuts, and are so popular ...

* Tuke, a character from Disney's ''

Brother Bear ''Brother Bear'' is a 2003 American animated musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 44th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Wa ...