[2] In 1908, two students at St John's decided to form a religious community, the Association of the Divine Call, with three-year vows of celibacy.
The establishment of the Association received a lukewarm response from Archbishop Lowther Clarke, and, after ordination to the diaconate in 1910,[4] the members of the community went their own ways.
In 1920 Tucker was appointed to St Stephen's, Adamstown,[7] a parish near Newcastle, where he met Guy Colman Cox who shared his dream of a community of serving priests.
Its four original members pledged to remain unmarried while part of the brotherhood, to live frugally and to practise an active community life.
In 1939 Tucker recruited the pacifist and social activist (and future Chairman of the Australian Board of Missions and Archbishop-elect of Brisbane) Frank Coaldrake to the Brotherhood of St Laurence to work in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy as a community worker.
[13] Dr Cecil Finn Tucker (1876–1945), who had practices at Beeac and Preston and responsibilities at Mont Park Hospital, was a brother.
He was a published playwright (Pleston's Experiment (1929), Butterflies and Bees (1932), The Optimist (1934), Thunder and Death (1936)), also author of short stories and a book of golfing fiction.