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Tucker, George (1775-1861).Economist, etc., born in Bermuda, became Professor of Moral Philosophy, etc., in the University of Virginia. He wrote a Life of Jefferson, Political History of the United States, Essays Moral and Philosophical, The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel. A Voyage to the Moon (satire), and various works on economics. Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly (1784-1851).born in Virginia, became a Professor of Law in William and Mary College He wrote a novel, The Partisan Leader (1836), a prophecy of the future disunion which led to the Civil War. It was re-published in 1861 as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy. Another novel was George Balcombe. Tuckerman, Henry Theodore (1813-1871).Essayist, etc., born in Boston, Mass. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He lived much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. These include The Italian Sketch-book, Isabel, or Sicily, Thoughts on the Poets, The Book of the Artists, Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, etc. Tulloch, John (1823-1886).Theologian and historical writer, born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, studied at St. Andrews and Edinburgh He was ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland at Dundee, whence he was translated to Kettins, Forfarshire, and became in 1854 Principal and Professor of Theology in St. Marys College, St. Andrews. He was a leader of the liberal party in the Church of Scotland, and wrote Literary and Intellectual Revival of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (1883), Movements of Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1884-85), Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, and a book on Pascal, etc. |
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