| Authorised form of name | Tuke; Sir; Samuel (c1615 - 1674); 1st Baronet; royalist army officer and playwright |
| Dates | c1615 - 1674 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of death | Somerset House, Strand, London, England, Europe |
| Date of death | 26 January 1674 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Somerset House chapel, London, England, Europe |
| Activity | Education:
Gray's Inn (admitted 14 August 1635)
Career:
Colonel in the Royalist Army (1642-1648); went into exile in France (1649-1660); Envoy to the French Court (1660, 1661); published the play 'The Adventures of Five Hours' in English (1661; 1671)
Honours:
Kt and Bt 1664
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| Membership category | Original Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/05/1663 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Committee for Foreign Correspondence (1661); Committee to consider propagating cider-fruit all over England (1663); Mechanical Committee (1664); Committee for Correspondence (1664) |
| Other Royal Society activity | While abroad, acted as a correspondent in Paris, in particular with the Academy of Sciences at Paris; Offered observations on agricultural matters (1661); Conducted experiments and observations on the ordering and generation of Colchester oysters (1662) |
| Relationships | Parents: George Tuke of Frayling and Elizabeth Wase
Married: 1) Mary Guldeford 2) Mary Sheldon
Children: incl. Charles Tuke (died at Battle of the Boyne)
Additional relatives: cousin of John Evelyn (FRS 1663) |
| OtherInfo | Tuke was involved in the Siege of Colchester in 1648 and was commissioner to the besieged after surrender. As a Royalist, he spent most of the Protectorate in exile in France, where he developed a reputation as a skilled duelist. After converting to Catholicism in 1659, he was an advocate for claims of loyal Catholics to a remission of penal laws and petitioned the House of Lords on their behalf multiple times. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; ODNB
References:
Faure-Fremiet, E. 1966. 'Les Origines de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris', in Notes and Records, vol. 21, pp. 20-31
Notes:
The election date is Tuke's re-election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows. He was previously elected on 6 March 1661. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/57914006 |
| Code | NA4977 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| LBO/1/3 | Copy letter from Samuel de Sorbiere, Paris, to Samuel Tuke | 26 August 1661 |
| CLP/15i/5 | Paper, 'The historie of the generation and ordering of the green oysters commonly call'd Colnchester [sic] oysters' by Colonel [Samuel] Tuke | [1662] |
| CLP/7i/9 | Paper, 'Relations of Island [Iceland]' by Theordorus Jonas | 1663 |
| CLP/10iii/9 | Paper, 'Cultura vitis' by Col [Samuel] Tuke | [1664] |
| CLP/10iii/9/2 | Plate, French method for cultivating vines by Samuel Tuke | [1664] |
| CLP/10iii/9/1 | Manuscript, 'Cultura vitis' by Col [Samuel] Tuke | [1664] |
| EL/T/1 | Letter, from Samuel Tuke to the President of the Royal Society | 26 June 1661 |
| RBO/1/13 | 'A Brief Account of the Supposed Rain of Wheat by Colonel Tuke' | 1 August 1661 |
| RBO/1/9 | 'Relation concerning the Academie at Paris' by Colonel Tuke | 12 June 1661 |
| RBO/2ii/13 | 'The History of the generation and Ordering of the green Oysters comonly call'd Colnechester Oysters' by Colonel Tuke | 17 December 1662 |