Maurice Pierre Ruffer (1857-1935) was a French-born British banker.

Early life

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

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and

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. His mother was Anne Caroline Prieger (1826-1890) from

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. His younger brother Sir Marc Armand Ruffer was an experimental pathologist and bacteriologist. The British fund manager and philanthropist

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(born 1951) is a great-grandson of Maurice Ruffer.

Personal life

In 1883, Maurice Ruffer married Coraly Sophie Henriette Straehelin (born 20 March 1862, died 31 Nov 1925). They had four children: * Stengelin Ferdinand Robert Ruffer (1884-1955). Father of Major John Edward Maurice Ruffer (1912-2010), who in turn was the father of

; * Charles Ernest Ruffer (1885-1943); * Alix Violet Coraly Ruffer (1888-1935); * Roland Ruffer (1895-1942). In 1897, Maurice Ruffer acquired the lease on Lyncombe, 1 Crescent Wood Road,

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, 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. In 1923, the lease passed to Francis Ellis, a merchant of 26 & 27

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. From 1911 to 1922 (at least), he was living at 33

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, where in 1911, he had ten servants. In 1955, the

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purchased the lease of the house as their headquarters.

Death

Ruffer died on 20 February 1935.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruffer, Maurice Pierre 1857 births 1935 deaths British bankers French emigrants to the United Kingdom English people of German descent