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TUCKER, ABRAHAM (1705-1774) , English moralist, was born in London, of a Somerset family, on the 2nd of September 1705, son of a wealthy city merchant. His parents dying during his infancy, he was brought up by his uncle, Sir Isaac Tillard. In 1721 he entered Merton College, Oxford, as a gentle;nan commoner, and studied philosophy, mathematics, French, Italian and music. He afterwards studied law at the Inner Temple, but was never called to the bar. In 1727 he bought Betchworth Castle, near Dorking, where he passed the remainder of his life, He took no part in politics, and wrote a pamphlet, " The Country Gentleman
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His work embraces in its scope many psychological and more strictly metaphysical discussions, but it is chiefly in connexion with ethics that Tucker's speculations are remembered. In some impor-tant points he anticipates the utilitarianism
satisfaction " Tucker holds to be the ultimate end of action; and satisfaction or pleasure is one and the same in kind, however much it may vary in degree. This universal motive
The Light of Nature was republished with a biographical sketch by Tucker's grandson, Sir H. P. St John Mildmay (1905), 7 vols. (other editions 1834, 1836, &c.), and an abridged edition by W. Hazlitt appeared in 1807. See James Mackintosh, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (Edinburgh, 1832) ; and specially Sir Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the z8th Century, iii. 119-130.' TUCKER, CHARLOTTE MARIA (1821-1893), English author, who wrote under the pseudonym "A.L.O.E." (a Lady of England), was born near Barnet, Middlesex , on the 8th of May 1821, the daughter of Henry St George Tucker (1771-1851), a distinguished official of the East India Company. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India to engage in missionary work, and died at Amritsar on the 2nd of December 1893.End of Article: TUCKER, ABRAHAM (1705-1774) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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