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   St. George Tucker, Judge<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Feb 14 1742<br>Birth: June 29 1752 - Port Royal, Bermuda, Atlantic Islands<br>Birth: July 10 1752 - Saint George, Bermuda<br>Christening: July 10 1752 - Southampton, Bermuda<br>Military Service: 1779 - Virginia, United States<br>Military Service: 1779<br>Military Service: Military Service - 1780 - Virginia, United States<br>Marriage: Spouse: Frances Bland - 1778<br>Marriage: Spouse: Frances Bland - Sep 19 1778 - Chesterfield, Virginia, United States<br>Marriage: Spouse: Lelia Skipwith - Oct 8 1791 - Virginia, United States<br>Residence: Chesterfield<br>Residence: Tucker House - Circa Oct 1788 - Williamsburg, Virginia, United States<br>Death: Nov 10 1827 - Warminster, Nelson, Virginia, United States<br>Burial: Nov 1827 - Cabell Family Cemetery, Warminster, Nelson County, Virginia, United States<br>Occupation: Judge, Lawyer<br>Parents: Henry Tucker II, Anne Tucker (born Butterfield)<br>Spouses: Frances Bland, Frances Bland, Lelia Skipwith<br>Children: Anna Frances Bland Coalter (born Tucker), Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., Theodorick Thomas Tudor Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Judge, Hennrietta Eliza Tucker, St. George Tucker, Julia Marie Tucker, Julia Tucker, Martha Rutledge Tucker, St. George Tucker Jr.<br>Siblings: Frances Tucker, Henry St George Tucker, Thomas Tudor Tucker, Elizabeth McNorton (born Tucker), Nathaniel Tucker, Tucker, Tucker<br>This person appears to have duplicated relatives. View it on FamilySearch to see the full information.<br>  Additional information:
   
   LifeSketch: BIOayist, poet, gardener, stargazer – St. George Tucker was what the 18th century called "a man of parts."nry Tucker, a trader and owner of the Grove plantation. His christening name, St. George, had been in the family since about 1600, when Frances St. George married George Tucker of Kent, England.d in Bermuda, Tucker sailed for Virginia at age 19 to pursue an education in the law, a study he seems already to have begun. He enrolled at the College of William and Mary in 1772 and read under George Wythe, who had instructed Thomas Jefferson. Wythe examined and approved Tucker for the bar on April 4, 1774.practice. He returned to Bermuda in June 1775, two months after the raid on Williamsburg's Magazine. Before he departed, he told Peyton Randolph and Jefferson of the existence of a similar magazine in Bermuda that might be a target for rebel retaliation.widow of John Randolph and the mother of three - one being John Randolph of Roanoke. They married on September 23, 1778, and moved to the Randolph plantation Matoax near Petersburg.entered Hampton Roads in 1779, Tucker joined the militia as a major. He later fought at Guilford Courthouse, where he sustained a minor wound; chasing a runaway soldier, he ran into the man's bayonet.il, and his description of General George Washington's arrival in Williamsburg before the battle is quoted widely.y died shortly after bearing their sixth child. That year he accepted appointments as the professor of law and policy at the College of William and Mary and as judge of the Virginia General Court at Richmond.ctures, and he preferred to teach in his home (the St. George Tucker House on Market Square), where his law library was handy. He usually had about a dozen pupils. One of them, William Taylor Barry, wrote: "He is a Man of genuine Cleverness and of the most exalted talents."three more, all of whom died early.ogently argued, it nevertheless had little effect. During these years he also edited Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" to put them in an American context and make them more useful to students. It was published in Philadelphia in 1803 and earned Tucker the title the "American Blackstone.""one of the most eminent of Virginia lawyers."alled in it a copper bathtub into which heated water was piped. The tub had a drain. He also invented an "earth closet" for his home that removed "night soil" through the wall and designed a water pump driven by a steam engine.amsburg. He had built a law office modeled after a Grecian temple there in 1803, but the change of locale and his appointment were delayed by scandal.citing a 100-guinea bribe for the acquittal of a current gaming charge. Tucker vigorously defended himself against the accusation, even traveling to Staunton to gather depositions about Bailey's character, thereby convincing the public of his innocence.y to becoming prominent judges themselves.from Colonial Williamsburg) Liberty was to be wonearned in the Law affairs conscientious and dependableed wife

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Historische gebeurtenissen

• Geboortedag 10 juli 1752
• Dag van overlijden 10 november 1827

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• Ook geboren op 10 juli
• Ook overleden op 10 november

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