Background
He is descended from a long line of American ancestors of English descent, the first American progenitor of which was one George Tucker of County Kent, England, who emigrated to Bermuda about the year 1619.
He is descended from a long line of American ancestors of English descent, the first American progenitor of which was one George Tucker of County Kent, England, who emigrated to Bermuda about the year 1619.
He graduated from the University of Virginia and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford. He studied law and then medicine but found neither to his liking.
George Tucker"s descendant, lawyer and judge Saint George Tucker (Tucker"s great-grandfather), moved from Bermuda to Virginia in about 1770. Beverley Dandridge Tucker was one of eight children of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker and Jane Shelton Ellis. He then entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia.
There he found his life"s work.
In 1905 Tucker delivered a sermon on the Continuity of the Life of the Church in a service inaugurating the restoration of the interior of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg to its colonial form and appearance. Tucker married Anna Maria Washington (1851-1927), the last Washington to be born at Mount Vernon.
(The name "Maria" is pronounced "Mariah" by family members)
Among the accolades Beverley Dandridge Tucker received was an honorary degree from William and Mary and a plaque in Bruton Parish that reads: "To the Glory of God and in memory of Beverley Dandridge Tucker, a bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia 1906-1930, this North Gallery formerly the slaves" or servants" gallery has been restored by Letitia Pate Evans in recognition of lifelong work among the negro people.".