| Administrative History | Rev. John Tucker (d 1873) was educated at Christ College Oxford where he was awarded a BA in 1813 and became a Fellow in 1817. He was ordained a deacon in 1818 and priest in 1819 and became minister of Southborough, Kent. In 1833 he went to South India as Secretary of the Madras Corresponding Committee 1833-1847. In 1847, on his return to England, he was appointed Secretary at CMS Headquarters, a post he held until 1852. Between 1852 and 1873 he was vicar of West Hendred, Berkshire. He died in 1873. His sister, Sarah Tucker, wrote a number of early missionary books and the Sarah Tucker Institution in Palamcotta was founded in her memory.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905); and manuscript additions to register |
| Custodial History | These papers were found during a move at headquarters in 1978/9 while the Madras mission papers were being catalogued. They formed part of the Tucker MSS (ACC 91) being John Tucker's private papers as secretary to the Madras Corresponding Committee, but had at some time in the past been placed with the official correspondence and papers of the CMS Madras Mission [C I 2]. |