The Tuke family of York

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The Tuke family of York were "a remarkabale family of Quaker innovators". They were 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 were

• William Tuke III (1732-1822), founder of The Retreat at York, one of the first modern insane asylums, in 1792.
• Henry Tuke (1755-1814)
• Samuel Tuke (1784-1857)
• James Hack Tuke (1819-1896)
• Hannah Tuke (1811-1869)

Others included

• William Murray Tuke (1822-1903), who gained his second name from Lindley Murray
• Dame Margaret Jansen Tuke, D.B.E., M.A. (1862-1947)

• Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858–13 March 1929), British painter and photographer, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys and young men, which have earned him a status as a pioneer of gay male culture.
• Daniel Hack Tuke was a prominent campaigner for humane treatment of the insane.

[edit] Book

• Willam K Sessions and E.Margaret Sessions (1971) The Tukes of York in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Ebor Press, York. (Includes [[family tree] of 12 generations], pp.116-117.)