Background
Tucker, Irwin Saint John was born on January 10, 1886 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Gardiner C. and Melville Leigh (Eckford) Tucker.
Tucker, Irwin Saint John was born on January 10, 1886 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Gardiner C. and Melville Leigh (Eckford) Tucker.
Bachelor of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, New York 1913. Student, Columbia.
Ordained priest, Protestant Episcopal Church, New York Cathedral, 1913. Pastor, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, since 1927. Assistant news editor and religion editor, Chicago Herald American, since 1924.
President, Patriarchal Council of Church of the East, since 1948, Aramaic Institute, since 1948.
Author: History of Imperialism, 1920, Out of the Hellbox, 1946, Friar Tuck’s Breviary, 1933, Army of the Faithful (series of religious instruction), 1946. Editor of Light from the East, since 1948.
Lecturer, composer, sculptor. Home: Chicago. *.
Married Ellen Dorothy O’Reilly, July 14, 1914. Children: Ernest Edward, John Irwin, Daniel Eugene.