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Josiah Tucker (1713-1799), also known as Dean Tucker was an 18th century Welsh economist and political writer, concerned with Jewish emancipation and American independence. He was an economist and political writer, and also dean of Gloucester. His first published work was an attack on Methodism. He made his name as an economist with A Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages, Which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain (1749). In the 1750s, Tucker supported Robert Nugent's bills for the 'naturalization' of foreigners, including Jews. He argued with both Edmund Burke and John Wilkes over attitudes to Britain's American colonies and took a distinctive position on the American War of Independence. He wrote several interesting pamphlets, including A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections Against Separating From the Rebellious Colonies (1776). His other works include Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects (1774).