William Guise-Tucker


William Guise Tucker R,N, B.A., was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was the inaugural Chaplain of the Fleet, serving from 1865 to 1871.
He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1835 and priest in 1836. After a curacy at Springfield, Essex, he was a Naval chaplain for 36 years, serving aboard, and HMS Ceylon; at HM Dockyard, Malta; in Canada; at RNH Haslar; and Greenwich Hospital, London.
He died on 17 January 1885 at Torquay, Devon, where he had been staying for his health. He was at the time the vicar of Ramsey, Essex, where he had been the incumbent since 1872.

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