Henry Tuke

{{Short description|English mental health reformer (1755–1814)}}

{{For|his great-grandson, the painter|Henry Scott Tuke}}

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Henry Tuke (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, William Tuke, the Retreat asylum in York, England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on Quaker principles.Birth: "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841"
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Henry Tuke born 24 Mar 1755, son of William & Elizabeth, in York, Yorkshire, England.Burial: "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841"
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Henry Tuke burial (died on 11 Aug 1814 at age 59) on 16 Aug 1814 in York, Yorkshire, England.

He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and French.

He was a subscriber to the African Institution, the body which set out to create a viable, civilized refuge for freed slaves in Sierra Leone, Africa.{{cite book|title=Sixth Report of the Committee of the African Institution|date=1812|publisher=African Institution|location=London|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=y6ERAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR5}}