Henry Street George Tucker was an English financier and official of the East India Company.
Background
Henry Saint George Tucker was born on 15 February 1771 on the island of Saint George, Bermuda. He was the eldest son of Henry Tucker (secretary and then later, President of the Council of the Bermudas) and his wife, Frances, daughter of the Governor of Bermuda George Bruere. Tucker married Jane, daughter of Robert Boswell, WS, who was a near relation of James Boswell.
Career
He was Accountant General in 1801 and again in 1805, and was Chairman of the Company in 1834 and 1847. Military Secretary to Lord Wellesley in 1799. Accountant General in 1801-1804 under Lord Wellesley and again in 1805 under Lord Cornwallis.
Chief Secretary in the Revenue and Judicial Department to the government in Calcutta.
In 1815 he went on leave to Street Helena. Lord Moira selected Tucker to be Governor of Java but he never returned to the East.
In 1826 Tucker was elected a Director of the East India Company and in 1834 he was elected Chairman and again in 1847. He resigned as a Director in April, 1851 and died in June of the same year.
He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.