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There are no images I can find of Alfred Tulk. He was a surgeon who also translated books from German to English. Tulk is relevant to Newport's story because he translated Lorenz Oken's 1843 edition of Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie into English. It was published as Physiophilosophy by the Ray Society in 1847.
Alfred Tulk also translated Chalybäus's Historical Survey of Speculative Philosophy. This shows he had philosophical inclinations likely influenced by Charles Augustus Tulk, who I believe was his uncle
Historian Gordon McOuat has done research on Alfred Tulk, particularly for his chapter, "'These Can Not All Have an Interest for England': Symmetry, Beauty and the Trouble with Romanticism in Britain," in The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere, ed. J. Buchwald and L. Stewart, 163–180. Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2017.
Alfred Tulk died in 1891 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, age 71
Alfred Tulk grave monument. Image provided with kind permission of Gravestone Photographic Resource. Copyright belongs to a GPR volunteer.
Lorenz Oken (1779-1851)
Lorenz Oken was a German philosopher and scientist and started the scientific periodical Isis in 1816. He reinterpreted Schelling's Naturphilosophie in Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie (1809). Oken influenced Richard Owen.
See a brief bio of Chalybäus or click on his name or image for the Wikipedia Britannica summary
Click name for info from History of Parliament Online
Click name for Wikipedia summary of "The New Church (Swedenborgian)"
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