William Frederic Tucker (3 January 1856 – 15 October 1934) was an
Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century.
Tucker was born in
New Cross
New Cross is an area in south east London, England, south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns, Telegraph Hill, Nunhead, Peckham, Brockley, Deptford and Greenwic ...
and educated at
St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1881 and became the
vicar
A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pre ...
of
Townsville
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in 1887
[''The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory'', London, Hamilton & Co 1889] and then
Archdeacon of
Ballarat in 1898 before becoming the
Dean of Ballarat in 1921. He served on the Council of
Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, the first university in the colony of Victoria, Australia. The college was opened in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England by the government of Victo ...
from 1919.
References
1856 births
People from New Cross
People educated at the Royal Naval School
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Anglican archdeacons in Australia
Deans of Ballarat
Archdeacons of Ballarat
1934 deaths
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