15 Facts About Frederick Booth-Tucker

Commissioner Frederick St George de Lautour Booth-Tucker, was a senior Salvation Army officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the son-in-law of Willam and Catherine Booth, the Army's founders.

Frederick Booth-Tucker was educated at Cheltenham College from 1866 until 1873, leaving when he was 20 years old.

Frederick Booth-Tucker joined the Indian Civil Service as an Assistant Commissioner in 1874, being posted to Amritsar, Simla and later to Dharamsala, where in addition to being Assistant Commissioner he was Assistant Magistrate.

Frederick Booth-Tucker married Louisa Mary Bode, eighteen years his senior, in 1877 at Amritsar in India, she having travelled out from her home on the Isle of Wight to join him.

Frederick Booth-Tucker was posted to the Camberwell Corps in July 1882.

Emma Frederick Booth-Tucker was given the title 'The Consul' by her father.

However, in October 1903 Emma Frederick Booth-Tucker was killed in a train crash while travelling to meet her husband in Chicago.

Frederick Booth-Tucker continued the work in America alone until 1904, when he returned to International Headquarters as Foreign Secretary.

In June 1906, Frederick Booth-Tucker married for the third time, to Colonel Minnie Reid, daughter of a one-time Acting Governor of Bombay.

In 1913, Frederick Booth-Tucker was invested with the gold Kaiser-i-Hind Medal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, in recognition of the many years of service he had given to the poor of India.

In 1919, suffering from ill-health, Frederick Booth-Tucker returned to England, but his relationship with his former brother-in-law General Bramwell Booth had cooled over the years and he was never again appointed to a senior command.

In 1920, Frederick Booth-Tucker was admitted to the Order of the Founder, The Salvation Army's highest accolade.

Frederick Booth-Tucker retired from active service in 1924, but with his wife continued to lead many spiritual campaigns during the 1920s in Britain and Europe and National Congresses in the Baltic States and Finland.

Frederick Booth-Tucker wrote a number of poems and songs, and while in the United States compiled a collection of One Hundred Favourite Songs of The Salvation Army.

Frederick Booth-Tucker died of angina pectoris on 17 July 1929, and, like many prominent Salvationists, was buried in Abney Park Cemetery.