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”’Sir Raphael Herman Tuck”’ (5 April 1910 â€“ 1 July 1982) was a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician and an academic and lawyer.

”’Sir Raphael Herman Tuck”’ (5 April 1910 â€“ 1 July 1982) was a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician and an academic and lawyer.

Born in [[Cricklewood]], London in 1910, Tuck was the son of David Lionel Tuck and a great-grandson of Raphael Tuck,<ref>GRO censuses</ref> founder of [[Raphael Tuck & Sons]], an art publishing company which became a leading publisher of postcards. He was educated at [[St Paul’s School (London)|St Paul’s School]], and was awarded a BSc (Econ.) at the [[London School of Economics]], an affiliated BA in law at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] (where he was in the same year and college as his future parliamentary colleague [[Sam Silkin]]),<ref>{{cite news |title=University News |work=The Times |date=19 June 1939 |page=8}}</ref> and, finally, an [[Master of Laws|LLM]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Who’s Who | title = TUCK, Sir Raphael (Herman) | id = U169906 | type = was | volume = 2025 | edition = online}}</ref>

Born in [[Cricklewood]], London in 1910, Tuck was the son of David Lionel Tuck and a great-grandson of Raphael Tuck,<ref>GRO censuses</ref> founder of [[Raphael Tuck & Sons]], an art publishing company which became a leading publisher of postcards. He was educated at [[St Paul’s School (London)|St Paul’s School]], and was awarded a BSc (Econ.) at the [[London School of Economics]], an affiliated BA in law at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] (where he was in the same year as his future parliamentary colleague [[Sam Silkin]]),<ref>{{cite news |title=University News |work=The Times |date=19 June 1939 |page=8}}</ref> and, finally, an [[Master of Laws|LLM]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Who’s Who | title = TUCK, Sir Raphael (Herman) | id = U169906 | type = was | volume = 2025 | edition = online}}</ref>

A political scientist and lawyer, he was constitutional advisor to the [[Premier of Manitoba]] and worked in special research at the [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Department of Labour]] in Ottawa, both in Canada. He became a barrister, called to the bar at [[Gray’s Inn]] in 1951. He was Professor of Law at the [[University of Saskatchewan]], Canada and Professor of Political Science at [[McGill University]], Montreal, Canada and at [[Tulane University]], New Orleans, United States.

A political scientist and lawyer, he was constitutional advisor to the [[Premier of Manitoba]] and worked in special research at the [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Department of Labour]] in Ottawa, both in Canada. He became a barrister, called to the bar at [[Gray’s Inn]] in 1951. He was Professor of Law at the [[University of Saskatchewan]], Canada and Professor of Political Science at [[McGill University]], Montreal, Canada and at [[Tulane University]], New Orleans, United States.


Latest revision as of 16:12, 4 October 2025

Sir Raphael Herman Tuck (5 April 1910 – 1 July 1982) was a British Labour Party politician and an academic and lawyer.

Born in Cricklewood, London in 1910, Tuck was the son of David Lionel Tuck and a great-grandson of Raphael Tuck,[1] founder of Raphael Tuck & Sons, an art publishing company which became a leading publisher of postcards. He was educated at St Paul’s School, and was awarded a BSc (Econ.) at the London School of Economics, an affiliated BA in law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (where he was in the same year as his future parliamentary colleague Sam Silkin),[2] and, finally, an LLM at Harvard University.[3]

A political scientist and lawyer, he was constitutional advisor to the Premier of Manitoba and worked in special research at the Department of Labour in Ottawa, both in Canada. He became a barrister, called to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1951. He was Professor of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and at Tulane University, New Orleans, United States.

Tuck was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for the English constituency of Watford in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1964, serving until 1979.

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