Abstract
The ancestry of Dean Tucker is not easy to establish. One of the reasons is that he himself had no interest in genealogy. ‘For’, as he once wrote, ‘a blind, old, bedridden maiden aunt gave me such a surfeit for that kind of learning, that I have never liked it since… and as to family-antiquity, she assured me that we were descended from one Morgan who by having a round turret perched on the top of an hill, must have been a prince, — and indeed considering the situation of the place I think I might claim some relationship to the knights of the golden fleece. For I am sure my great ancestor Prince Morgan was a sheep-stealer.’1
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T. Y. Lewis, ‘Nevern’, Transactions of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society, vit (Aberystwyth, 1930) 28.
Mary Curtis, The Antiquities of Laugharne and Pendine, Carmarthenshire, South Wales (1871).
Josiah Tucker, Instructions for Travellers (1757) p. 39.
D. J. Davies, The Economic History of South Wales prior to 1880 (Cardiff, 1933) p. 90
Ralph Bigland, The Original History of the City of Gloucester (1819) p. 108.
Rev. Luke Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., 2nd edn (1871–2) vol. I, pp. 85–6.
Rev. Norman Sykes, Church and State in England in the XVIIIth Century (Cambridge, 1934) p. 78.
C. D. Broad, Five Types of Ethical Theory (1930) pp. 6–7.
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Shelton, G. (1981). Background. In: Dean Tucker and Eighteenth-Century Economic and Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16503-2_1
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