Maurice Ruffer | |
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Born | 1 May 1857 Lyons, France |
Died | 20 February 1935 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Banker |
Known for | A Ruffer & Sons |
Relatives | Sir Marc Armand Ruffer (brother) |
Maurice Pierre Ruffer (1857-1935) was a French-born British banker.
Maurice Pierre Ruffer was the son of Baron Alphonse Charles Jacques Alexandre Ruffer (1819-1896, first Baron de Ruffer), who founded the bank A Ruffer & Sons in 1872, the family having been silk merchants in Leipzig and Lyons. [1] [2] His mother was Anne Caroline Prieger (1826-1890) from Bad Kreuznach in Germany. His younger brother Sir Marc Armand Ruffer was an experimental pathologist and bacteriologist. The British fund manager and philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer (born 1951) is a great-grandson of Maurice Ruffer.
In 1883, Maurice Ruffer married Coraly Sophie Henriette Straehelin (born 20 March 1862, died 31 Nov 1925). [3] They had four children:
In 1897, Maurice Ruffer acquired the lease on Lyncombe, 1 Crescent Wood Road, Sydenham Hill, London, a banker, of 39 Lombard Street, after the previous owner Henry Gover (c. 1835–1895), a solicitor and educationist had died there in 1895. [4] In 1923, the lease passed to Francis Ellis, a merchant of 26 & 27 Farringdon Street. [4]
From 1911 to 1922 (at least), he was living at 33 Belgrave Square, where in 1911, he had ten servants. [5] [6] In 1955, the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain purchased the lease of the house as their headquarters. [7]
Ruffer died on 20 February 1935. [4]
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