Richard Matthews Ruck
1851–1935
Army officer. Brother of Amy Richenda Ruck, the first wife of Francis Darwin. Attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Entered the Royal Engineers, 1871; captain, 1883, major, 1889; lieutenant-colonel, 1896; colonel, 1904; major-general, 1908. Married as her second husband Mary Constance Pedley, widow of Thomas Humphrey Pedley and daughter of John Gully, in 1878. Knighted, 1920.
Sources
Ruck 1935
WWW 1929–40.
Bibliography
Ruck, Berta. 1935. A story-teller tells the truth: reminiscences & notes. London: Hutchinson & Co.
WWW: Who was who: a companion to Who’s who, containing the biographies of those who died during the period [1897–1995]. 9 vols. and cumulated index (1897–1990). London: Adam & Charles Black. 1920–96.
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