Abraham Tucker
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
a metaphysical writer, was born in London in 1705, and was educated at Bishop's Stortford School and Merton College, Oxford. He studied for a while at the Inner Temple, but was not admitted to the bar. He died in 1774. He published, Free-will, Fore-knowledge, and Fate; a Fragment by Edward Search (Lond. 1763, 8vo): — Man in Quest of Himself or a Defence of the Individuality of the Human Mind or Self, etc., by Cuthbert Comment, Gent. (763, 8vo). His great work, however, is The Light of Nature Pursued, by Edward Search (1768-78; Cambridge, Mass., 1831, 4 vols. 8vo; with later editions, and an abridgment by William Hazlitt, 1807, 8vo). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Author of "The Light of Nature Pursued"; educated at Oxford and the Inner Temple, but possessed of private means betook himself to a quiet country life near Dorking and engaged in philosophical studies, the fruit of which he embodied in seven volumes of miscellaneous theological and metaphysical writing (1705-1774).
