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Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

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in 1679 and after Charles's death returned to Portugal with Catherine in 1692. The couple's children included Charles Tuke (1671–1690), the eldest son, who died of wounds sustained at the
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in 1635 and had fought in Europe before the Civil War broke out in 1640. By late 1642 he was a major in the Duke of York's Regiment, serving with
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before resigning his commission after he was passed over for promotion to major-general of horse in favour of Goring's brother-in-law
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and became known as a duellist and a wit. He tried to become Henry's governor but instead was recommended to Charles as
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in 1648, acting as one of its occupants' commissioners on the surrender and then going into exile with
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vetoed such an appointment. By 1659 at the latest Tuke had also converted to Roman Catholicism.
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in 1668, to Mary Sheldon (died 1705, Portugal), a dresser to Charles II's queen
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whilst fighting on the Jacobite side as a captain in Tyrconnell's Horse.
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in 1664, to Mary Guldeford (died 1666, Paris), who died in childbirth.
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Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Wheatley, 5.403, writing in 1666
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The third son of George Tuke, Samuel was admitted to
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English officer in the Royalist army and playwright
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Index

Somerset House
Royalist
English Civil War
1663
The Adventures of Five Hours
George Digby
Antonio Coello
Duke's Company
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Duenna
Gray's Inn
William Cavendish
battle of Marston Moor
George Goring
George Porter
defended Colchester
Prince Charles
the Protectorate
John Evelyn
Henry Stuart
James, Duke of York
Queen Henrietta Maria
Edward Hyde
Restoration
Cardinal Mazarin
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Samuel Pepys
Othello
Royal Society
Transactions of the Royal Society

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