Tucker, James, 1808?-1888?
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- Tucker, James. The Grahame's vengeance, or, The fate of James The First, King of Scotland, 1993:t.p. (James Tucker) t.p. verso (Australian CIP hdg.: Tucker, James, 1808?-1888?) p. 1, etc. (James Tucker, aka Rosanburg; James Rosenberg Tucker; age 19 in 1827; b. Bristol, England; convicted of writing a threatening letter and transported to Australia; wrote plays [unpublished] for an Australian theatrical society using names Otto von Rosenberg and Giacomo di Rosenberg)
- LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: Tucker, James Rosenberg, 1808?-1866; xrefs: Rashleigh, Ralph, pseud.; Rosenberg, Giacomo di, pseud.; note: the name Ralph Rashleigh is admitted to be an alias (cf. p. 1 of his Adventure of an outlaw, 1929); the introd. to the orig. ms. states that "the tale was compiled by the editor as it fell from the lips of the person who was at once the author and in some sort the hero of the adventures therein related"; the author's name on t.p. of orig. ms. is given as Giacomo di Rosenberg; on other mss. found with it the name Otto von Rosenberg appears; from this conjunction of names it would seem that both are variations of a pseud.; citation: Ralph Rashleigh, 1952: James Tucker or Rosanbury)
James Rosenberg Tucker (1808–1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England. Under the pseudonym Giacomo di Rosenberg, Tucker wrote his autobiographical Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile in 1844. It was published in a heavily edited form in 1929, and his original manuscript was published in 1952. Tucker was convicted at the Chelmsford Spring Assizes on 3 March 1826 of blackmailing his cousin, James Stanyford Tucker. He was tried before Sir William Alexander, C.B., "On an indictment for sending a threatening letter...accus[ing] of an infamous crime" and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 18 years old at the time. The next year he was put aboard the convict ship Midas, which sailed for Sydney Cove. He arrived in Sydney in 1827 and worked at Emu Plains, New South Wales. Still a convict, he was sent to Port Macquarie in 1844. He was in Goulburn from 1849 to 1853.
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