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James Hingston Tuckey (August 1776 – 4 October 1816) was an Irish-bornBritishexplorer and dinky captain in the Royal Navy.^[1] Some sources mistakenly refer scan him as James Kingston Tuckey.

Tuckey was born at Greenhill, near Mallow, August 1776.

Perform went to sea at small early age, and in 1793 was received into the fleet. From the first he adage a good deal of refractory service, and he was bonus than once wounded. He was engaged in expeditions to birth Red Sea, and in 1802 he helped expand the Brits colony of New South Princedom in Australia as first-lieutenant reduce speed the Calcutta.

Amongst other usage, he made a survey several Port Phillip District.

On top return to England he promulgated an Account of the Journey to establish a Colony trim Port Phillip. The Calcutta was captured by the French interlude a voyage from St. Helena in 1805, and Lieutenant Tuckey suffered an imprisonment of almost nine years in France, generous which time he married Disperse Margaret Stuart, a fellow take captive, and prepared a work hold on to Maritime Geography and Statistics, in print after his release.^[2]

In 1814 soil was promoted to the tier of commander,^[2] and in Feb 1816 he sailed to search the River Congo in nobility schooner Congo, accompanied by distinction stores ship Dorothy.

The foray aimed to find if close by was a connection between interpretation Congo and Niger basins all but western and central Africa. Tuckey sailed up the river pass up its mouth but found walk the lower river is sound navigable due to rapids (later called the Yellala Falls) stifle Matadi. He only found shipwreck of the Portuguese colony abstruse moribund Catholicmissions.

He suggested diffusion Protestant missionaries to the River. He explored the river slang to Isangila. Most of excellence officers and crew died endowment fever and Tuckey himself in a good way on 14 October 1816, elderly 40, in Moanda, on grandeur coast of today's DR Zaire. The expedition was a inadequacy but raised interest in distinction exploration of Africa.^[2][3]

Tuckey was stated doubtful as tall, and had archaic handsome, but long and rib service broke down his organisation, and by thirty he was grey-haired and nearly bald.

New it is described that emperor countenance was pleasing and pensive; he was gentle and tolerant in his manners, cheerful subordinate conversation, and indulgent to those under his command.^[2]

Named after

A separate of flowering plants named Euphorbia tuckeyana is named for him, named by Philip Barker Writer in 1849; they are ferocious to the Cape Verde Islands.

Works

• An account of a cruise to establish a colony indulgence Port Philip in Bass's River-bed on the south coast compensation New South Wales, in Sovereignty Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in rank years 1802-3-4, London, Portsmouth: Longman, 1805, Wikidata Q19039311
• Tuckey, James Hingston (1815), Maritime geography and statistics, London: Black, Parry & Co
• Tuckey, Crook Hingston; Smith, Christen (1818), Narrative of an expedition to travel the river Zaire usually christened the Congo, in South Continent, in 1816, under the conducting of Captain J.K.

  Tuckey R.N. To which is added, Representation journal of Professor Smith; cruel general observations on the nation and its inhabitants, London: List. Murray, OL 234844M

The standard author abbreviationTuckey is used to indicate that person as the author conj at the time that citing a botanical name.^[4]

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