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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 611 |  | Surname | Tucker | | | Christian Names | Robert Tudor | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1833-35 | | | 1st Term | Classics, Mathematics, Essay Prizes | | | 2nd Term | Classics, Law, Mathematics, Hist & Pol Econ, Essay Prizes | | | 3rd Term | Classics, Mathematics, Hist & Pol Econ, Hindustani Prizes | | | 4th Term | Classics, Mathematics, Hist & Pol Econ, Sanskrit Medals; Hindustani Prize | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1835-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed at Fatehpur | | | Date of Death | 1857 [Jun 9] | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Fatehpur | | | Mutiny Service | Judge of Futtehpore. On June 9 the storm burst at this Station, halfway between Allahabad and Cawnpore. The mob plundered the Treasury, let loose the prisoners and destroyed the Government offices, and the officials had to escape as best they could. But Tucker refused to stir. He took up his post on the roof of the Magistrate's office and there held the rebels at bay till he was shot down, not before several had fallen to his rifle. Not one member of the Service behaved more gallantly than Robert Tucker, one brave Englishman alone and unsupported, not hesitating to face an infuriated mob of ruffians and sacrificing the life which he might well have saved a to noble, if exaggerated, sense of duty. So much had he endeared himself to all that after his death two Hindus stood out and cursed his .murderers in public, for which honest and brave speech they lost their lives. |
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