Adolph Tuck

Prussian-British fine art publisher

Adolph Tuck, his brothers and his father

Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st Baronet (30 January 1854–3 July 1926), was a Prussian-British fine art publisher and chairman of Raphael Tuck & Sons. He was created a baronet in 1910. It was due to the efforts of Adolph Tuck that the size of the postcard in England was increased to the size allowed by the Universal Postal Union.

Early life

Tuck was born in Prussia on 30 January 1854, the second son of Raphael Tuck,[1] and was educated at Elizabeth's Gymnasium in Breslau.[2] The family moved to London in 1864, as refugees from the Second Schleswig War.[3] They were Jewish.[4]

Raphael Tuck & Sons

At the age of fifteen, Tuck joined his father's business, Raphael Tuck & Sons art publishers. By 1879 Tuck had started a series of Christmas card design exhibitions at the Dudley Gallery, but the company was best known as the first to introduce the picture postcard to the British Empire.[2] Tuck became a naturalized British subject in 1883[5] and was created a baronet in 1910.[2]

Family life

In 1882, Tuck married Jeanetta Flatau, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.[1] In 1925, the couple's second daughter, Sybil Grace (1887–1979), married the banker and philanthropist Sir Edward Stern (1854–1933), a member of the Stern family.[6] Their youngest daughter, Muriel, married Leonard Goldsmid-Montefiore in 1924.[7]

Tuck died at his London home at 29 Park Crescent, Portland Place, on 3 July 1926, when his eldest son Major William Reginald Tuck inherited the baronetcy.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, Etc. of Great Britain and Ireland for 1923. London: Dod's Peerage. 1923. p. 870 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c d "Sir Adolph Tuck". The Times. No. 44315. London. 5 July 1926. p. 17.
  3. ^ Lund, Brian (2008). "Raphael Tuck's Types and Series". Picture Postcard Annual (2008 ed.). Keyworth: Reflections of a Bygone Age. pp. 3–7. ISBN 9781905408139.
  4. ^ Harfield, G. Eugene (1894). A Commercial Directory of the Jews of the United Kingdom. London: Hewlett & Pierce – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ 1911 Census of St Marylebone, RG14/518, 29 Park Crescent.
  6. ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 44163 (Royal ed.). London. 7 January 1926. p. 1.
  7. ^ "Wedding of Miss M. Tuck and Mr L. N. G. Montefiore". The Manchester Guardian. No. 24307. Manchester. 16 July 1924. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Park Crescent in St Marylebone)
1910–1926 		Succeeded by
Reginald Tuck