OBITUARY.
SIR ADOLPH TUCK. A.'and N.Z. LONDON. July 4. The death has occurred of Sir Adolph Tuck, chairman and managing director of Raphael Tuck and Sons, art publishers, aged 72 years.
Sir Adolph Tuck was born m 1854. He entered his father's art business in London in 1869. In 1879 he inaugurated the first of a series of original Christmas card designs exhibitions at the Dudley Gallery, with Sir Contts Lindsay, John Millais, R.A., and Marcus Stone, R.A., as judges. He introduced picture postcards into the British Empire in 1894. His heir is Major W. R. Tuck, who married Mrs. Desmond Kettle, second daughter of Mr. N. Alfred Nathan, of Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19372, 6 July 1926, Page 11
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111OBITUARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19372, 6 July 1926, Page 11
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