Tucker, Levi, D.D.,a Baptist minister, was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., .July 6, 1804. He studied the- ology at the Hamilton Institution, graduated June3. 1829, and on tlie lOtli of the same month was ordained pastor of the church at Deposit, N. Y. In the summer of 1831 he accepted a call to settle at Blockley (now AVest Pliila- del[)hia). Pa., where he labored with great success, act- ing also for a while as agent of the Baptist Educational Society of that state, until the sjiring of 1836, when he removed to Cleveland, O. After remaining there seven j'ears, he was for a while pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church in Buffalo, and on Dec. 29, 1848, became pastor of the Bowdoin Place Churcli. Boston. His health having become greaily impaired, he re- signed his charge in September, 1852, and took a jour- ney to England, France, Italy, and Egypt, whence lie returned in the early part of August. 1853, and died on the 23d of the same month. See Sprague, .4 nnals of the A mer. Pulpit, vi, 786.
Tucker (or Tooker), 'William, D.D., a learned English divine of the 16th century, was born at Exeter. He was educated at New College, Oxford, and was ad- mitted perpetual fellow in 1577. In 1585 he was pro- moted to the archdeaconry of Barnstable, in Devon- shire. He was eventually made chaplain to cpieen Elizabeth. Dr. Tucker afterwards became prebendary of Salisbury, and took his degree of D.D. in 1594. He was made canon of the church at Exeter, and was in- stalled dean of Lichfield, Feb. 21, 1604. lie died at Salisbury, March 19, 1620. Dr. Tucker was esteemed an excellent Greek and Latin scholar. He was an able divine, a person of great gravity and (liety, and well read in curious and critical authors. His publications are, Charisma, sire Rabilium Sanitatum Gratia, etc. (Lond. 1597, 4to). a historical defence of the power of royalty to cure the king's evil: — Of the Fabric of the Church and Churchmen's Livhiy (ibid. 1604, 8vo) : — Sin^ yulare Cerlamen cum Martino liccano Jesuita (ibid. Kill, 8v()), written in defence of .lames I against Becaii and Bellarmine. See Chalmers, Hioy. Diet. s. v, ; Alli- bone, Ifict. ef Brit, and .4 mer. A uthois, s. \-.
Tuckermaii, Josf.imi, D.D., a Unitarian minister, was born in Boston, JMass.. .Ian. 18, 1778. and gra<luated from Harvard College in 1798. After devoting liimself to the study of theology, under Rev. Thomas Tbacher of Dedham, he was ordained and installed as ])astor in Chelsea, Nov. 4, 1801. While at (Chelsea, his attention was drawn to the temptations and necessities of sea- faring men, and in the winter of 1811-12 he founded the first society for the religious and moral improve- ment of seamen. In 1816 i\Ir. Tuckerman visited Eng- land in search of health, but soon returned without hav- ing experienced much apparent advantage from his tour. He resigned his charge at Chelsea in 1826,
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preaching his farewell sermon on Nov. 4. He imme- diately entered upon his work as minister at large in Boston, devoting himself to the visitation of the poor and destitute for tlie remainder of his life. In 183o he again went to Europe, returning in the following year, lie died in Havana, whither he had gone fir his health, April 20, 1810. lie publislied a large number of Ser- mons, Letters, Essai/s, etc. (1800-38). See Sprague, .-1m- nuls of the A mer. i'alpit, viii, 345.
Tuckney, An thonv, a learned Nonconf irmist di- vine of England, was born at Kirton, Lincolnshire, in September, 159i). He was matriculated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, at fourteen, received his degree of A.M. in 1(320, and was chosen fellow of his college three years after. In 1(527 he took his degree of B.D., and became assistant to the famous vicar John Cotton, upon whose departure he was chosen to the vicarage. When the assembly of divines met at Westminster, 3Ir. Tuck- ney was one of tlie two nominated for the county of Lincoln, and was appointed minister of St. Michael Querne's, Cheapside. In 1G45 he was appointed master of Emanuel College, hut did not entirely reside on this employment until 1G48, when, being chosen vice-chan- cellor, he removed with his family to Cambridge, and took his degree of D.D. the year after. In 1G53 he was chosen master of St. John's, and two years after regiiis professor of divinity. At the Restoration complaints were made by royalists against Jlr. Tuckney. who re- signed both positions June 22, ItJGl, receiving a pension of £100 per year. The rest of his life he spent in re- tirement, mostly in London. Although appointed com- missioner at the Savoy Conference, he never attendetl it. In the time of the plague he lived at Colwich Hall, near Nottingham, where he was troubled and confined, but was discharged in a few months. Upon the passage of the Five-mile Act he removed to Oundle, and thence to Warmington, Northamptonshire. After the fire of London he removed to Stockerston, Leicestershire, and then to Tottenham, and in 1GG9-70 to Spitalyard, where he died in February. 1(170. He wrote, Sermon on Jer. viii, 22 (Lond. 1(543, 4to): — f'ice Sermons (1(556, 12mo) : — Forfi/ Sermons (IG7G, 4to), (inblished by his son : — Letters, etc. See (Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v. ; AUibone, l>ict. of Brit, and A mer. Authors, s. v.