Henry Tuke
English mental health reformer (1755–1814) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For his great-grandson, the painter, see Henry Scott Tuke.
Henry Tuke (24 March 1755 – 11 August 1814) co-founded with his father, William Tuke, the Retreat asylum in York, England, a humane alternative to the nineteenth-century network of asyla, based on Quaker principles.[1][2]
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He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and French.
He was a subscriber to the African Institution, the body which set out to create a viable, civilized refuge for freed slaves in Sierra Leone, Africa.[3]