 His father, Beverley Dandridge Tucker Sr. was an Episcopal priest who had served in the Confederate States Army and as chaplain of a Confederate veterans group as well as small parishes in Virginia's Northern Neck, and later helped establish Colonial Williamsburg and became the second bishop of the Southern Virginia.Two of his brothers became missionaries in China and Japan.His eldest brother Henry St. George Tucker became the second Missionary Bishop of Kyoto, but returned to his home state and became Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia and later Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.