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JOSIAH TUCKER (1712-1799)

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

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