Born at St. Petersburg on 22 November 1777, he came to England in 1792, and was articled to William Devon, solicitor, in Gray's Inn, with whom he entered into partnership in 1798.
Subsequently, he was for many years at 39 Bedford Row, in partnership with Charles Parker, and then in the firm of Tooke, Son, & Hallowes.
He was present at the first annual meeting of the Law Institution on 5 June 1827, and was instrumental in obtaining a royal charter of incorporation for it in January 1832.
[1] At the general election of 1830, with his friend Sir John William Lubbock, Tooke unsuccessfully contested the close borough of Truro.
[1] During the five sessions that he sat in parliament Tooke supported reform, and gave his vote for measures for the promotion of education and for the abolition of slavery; but in later life his views became more conservative.
White for the board-room of the governors and directors of the poor of the parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George's, Bloomsbury, and engraved in mezzotint by Charles Turner.