JOSIAH TUCKER (1712-1799)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V27,
Page 361
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOSIAH See also:TUCKER (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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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
.
End of Article: JOSIAH TUCKER (1712-1799)
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