Thomas Tudor Tucker (Royal Navy officer)

Thomas Tudor Tucker, CB (1775–1852) was a British sailor from Bermuda. He was a Rear Admiral in the British Navy.

Life

He was named for an uncle, Thomas Tudor Tucker, who served as Treasurer of the United States. The third of the eight sons (all in the public service) of Henry Tucker, secretary of the council of the Bermudas, he was born on 29 June 1775; Henry St George Tucker was his eldest brother.

After two voyages in the service of the East India Company, Tucker entered the Royal Navy in 1793 as master's mate of , with Captain William Clark, whom he followed to , and , in which he was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope. On 21 March 1796 he was appointed acting lieutenant of on the East India station, in which and afterwards in the sloop , again in Victorious and in , he served as acting lieutenant for nearly four years. On her way homewards Sceptre was lost in Table Bay, on 5 November 1799. Many of her crew perished, and Tucker was left to find his own passage to England.