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TUCKER, JOSIAH (1712-1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUCKER, See also:JOSIAH (1712-1799) , See also:English economist and divine, the son of a small Welsh See also:farmer, was See also:born at Laugharne, See also:Carmarthenshire, in 1712. He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, and became successively a See also:curate and See also:rector in See also:Bristol. This led him to take considerable See also:interest in politics and See also:trade, and during the greater portion of a See also:long See also:life he poured out a See also:succession of See also:pamphlets on these matters. He was appointed See also:dean of See also:Gloucester in 1758. He died on the 4th of See also:November 1799, and was buried in Gloucester See also:Cathedral. His Important Questioss on See also:Commerce (1755) was translated into See also:French by See also:Turgot.

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