William Guise-Tucker

William Guise-Tucker, (12 May 1812; 17 January 1885)[1] was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was the inaugural Chaplain of the Fleet, serving from 1865 to 1871.

Guise-Tucker was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.[2] He was ordained deacon in 1835[3] and priest in 1836.[4] After a curacy at Springfield, Essex he was a Naval chaplain for 36 years, serving aboard HMS Revenge, HMS Albion and HMS Ceylon; at HM Dockyard, Malta; in Canada; at RNH Haslar; and Greenwich Hospital, London.

He died at Ramsey, Essex where he had been the incumbent since 1872.[5] His son, also William Guise Tucker, was a Major-general in the British Army.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Grave Site of Vicar William Guise Tucker (1812-1885) | BillionGraves". billiongraves.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Vol. vi. Square – Zupitza, 1954 p241 Online version on the Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1868 London, Horace Cox, 1868
  4. ↑ ORDINATIONS. The Standard (London, England), Tuesday, June 07, 1836; Issue 2832. (462 words). British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  5. ↑ DEATH OF THE REV. W. GUISE TUCKER, OF RAMSEY. The Essex Standard, West Suffolk Gazette, and Eastern Counties' Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, January 24, 1885; pg. 6; Issue 2824. (682 words). British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  6. ↑ TUCKER, Maj.-Gen. William Guise’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 27 May 2017


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