Adolph Tuck

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]

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]

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), 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]