Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st

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(30 January 1854–3 July 1926), was a Prussian-British fine art publisher and chairman of

Raphael Tuck & Sons Raphael Tuck & Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London in October 1866, selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, which was their most successful line. Their busi ...

. 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

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on 30 January 1854, the second son of Raphael Tuck, and was educated at Elizabeth's Gymnasium in Breslau. The family moved to

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in 1864, as refugees from the

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. They were Jewish.

Raphael Tuck & Sons

At the age of fifteen, Tuck joined his father's business,

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. Tuck became a naturalized

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in 1883 and was created a baronet in 1910.

Family life

In 1882, Tuck married Jeanetta Flatau, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. 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

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. Their youngest daughter, Muriel, married Leonard Goldsmid-Montefiore in 1924. Tuck died at his London home at 29 Park Crescent,

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, on 3 July 1926, when his eldest son Major William Reginald Tuck inherited the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuck, Adolph 1854 births 1926 deaths British Jews Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Emigrants from the Kingdom of Prussia Immigrants to the United Kingdom