James Tucker (convict)

James Rosenberg Tucker (1808–1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England.

[1] Under the pseudonym Giacomo di Rosenberg, Tucker wrote his autobiographical Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile in 1844.

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.

The next year he was put aboard the convict ship Midas, which sailed for Sydney Cove.

[3] He arrived in Sydney in 1827 and worked at Emu Plains, New South Wales.