Major Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig

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FSA (3 January 1873 – 10 April 1943) was a

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officer, heraldist and author of various works on art history, especially

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. Tudor-Craig was an officer in the 4th (

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) battalion of the

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, where he was promoted

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on 27 August 1898, and major on 29 November 1902. He served as Instructor of Musketry with the 8th Provisional Battalion in 1902.Hart′s Army list, 1902 His first wife, whom he married in 1898, was Emily Mary Lukin (1866–1939). Lady Tudor-Craig was made

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in 1920; they had one son James Tudor-Craig whose wife was Medieval Art Historian, Dr

Pamela Tudor-Craig Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA (née Wynn-Reeves; 26 June 1928 – 5 December 2017) was a British medieval art historian. Personal life Pamela Wynn-Reeves was born on 26 June 1928 in Golders Green, London. Her parents were Herbert ...

(née Wynn Reeves). In 1940, he remarried Grace Jennings.

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