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.