Thomas Tudor Tucker ( Royal Navy officer ) Thomas Tudor Tucker , C . B . ( 1775 – 1852 ) was a British sailor from Bermuda . He was a Rear Admiral in the British Navy . Life . He was named for an uncle , Thomas Tudor Tucker , who served as Treasurer of the United States . . The third of the eight sons ( all in the public service ) of Henry Tucker , secretary of the council of the Bermudas , he was born on 29 June 1775 ; Henry St George Tucker was his eldest brother . After two voyages in the service of the East India Company , Tucker entered the Royal Navy in 1793 as master ' s mate of HMS " Argo " , with Captain William Clark , whom he followed to HMS " Sampson " , and HMS " Victorious " , in which he was present at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope . On 21 March 1796 he was appointed acting lieutenant of HMS " Suffolk " on the East India station , in which and afterwards in the sloop HMS " Swift " , again in the " Victorious " and in HMS " Sceptre " , he served as acting lieutenant for nearly four years . On her way homewards the Sceptre was lost in Table Bay , on 5 November 1799 . Many of her crew perished , and Tucker was left to find his own passage to England . On arriving in London Tucker learned that the Admiralty refused to confirm his irregular promotion , and , after passing a second examination , he was made a lieutenant on 20 May 1800 , into HMS " Prince George " , in which , and then in HMS " Prince " , he served in the Channel fleet till the Peace of Amiens . In June 1803 he was appointed to the HMS " Northumberland " , carrying the flag of Rear - admiral Alexander Cochrane , at first off Ferrol , and later on in the West Indies , where , on 6 February 1806 , he was present in the battle of St . Domingo . He was then appointed by the admiral acting commander of HMS " Dolphin " , and , in succession , of several other ships ; but his rank was not confirmed till 15 February 1808 . In April he was moved into HMS " Epervier " . In it , and then in HMS " Cherub " , he captured enemy vessels protected by batteries . In February 1810 Tucker assisted in the reduction of Guadeloupe . On the special recommendation of the commander - in - chief , Sir Francis Laforey promoted him to post rank on 1 August 1811 . Remaining in the " Cherub " , he sailed to England in September 1812 , in charge of a large convoy . Tucker was ordered to refit the " Cherub " for foreign service , and early in December sailed for South America , and on to the Pacific , where , at the Juan Fernández Islands , he joined Captain James Hillyar of HMS " Phoebe " . He assisted in the capture of USS " Essex " , near Valparaiso , on 28 March 1814 , a fight in which Tucker was severely wounded . In August 1815 the " Cherub " returned to England , and was paid off . Tucker then commanded HMS " Andromeda " and HMS " Comus " for a few months , but after May 1816 had no employment . On 4 July 1840 he was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath ; and on 1 October 1846 was put on the retired list , with the rank of rear - admiral . He died in London on 20 July 1852 . Family . Tucker married , in 1811 , Anne Byam Wyke , eldest daughter of Daniel Hill of Antigua , and left issue a son and three daughters .