James Tucker (convict)

James Tucker was born in Bristol, England vers 1808.[1] He died in 1888.

Tucker wrote his autobiographical Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile in 1844. It was published in 1929, but his original manuscript was never released until 1952.[2]

In 1826 Tucker was convicted at the Essex Assizes on March 3 1826 of blackmailing his cousin, also a James Tucker, and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 18 years old at the time. The next year he was put aboard the convict ship Midas, which sailed for Sydney Cove.

References

  1. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography. 1967.
  2. ↑ Tucker, James (1844). Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile.

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