Early Life
Tucker was born near Port Royal, Bermuda, to Anne Butterfield (?-1797) and Henry Tucker (1713-1787). Henry was the great-grandson of George Tucker, who emigrated to Bermuda from England in 1662. The Port Royal Tuckers were well-regarded in the area. His older brother Thomas Tudor Tucker migrated to Virginia in the 1760s after completing medical school in Scotland, and settled in South Carolina before the American Revolutionary War. George Tucker, a politician and author, was a relative of theirs. The name St. George had been in the family since his great-great-grandfather George Tucker married Frances St. George.
As a young man of 19, Tucker moved to the colony of Virginia in 1772 to study law under George Wythe.) Upon arriving in Williamsburg, Tucker entered the College of William & Mary, where he was a member of the F.H.C. Society. After six months at the College, Tucker took private law lessons from Wythe. Tucker passed the bar on April 4, 1774, on the verge of the American Revolutionary War.
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