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

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, London in 1910, Tuck was the son of David Lionel Tuck and a great-grandson of Raphael Tuck,GRO censuses founder of

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, an art publishing company which became a leading publisher of postcards. He was educated at St Paul's School and at the universities of

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and

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. A political scientist and lawyer, he was constitutional advisor to the

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and worked in special research at the

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in Ottawa, both in Canada. He became a barrister, called to the bar at

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in 1951. He was Professor of Law at the

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, Canada and Professor of Political Science at

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, Montreal, Canada and at

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, New Orleans, United States. Tuck was elected as the member of parliament (MP) for the English constituency of

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in the

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in 1964, serving until 1979.

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* 1910 births 1982 deaths Harvard University alumni Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People educated at St Paul's School, London Academic staff of McGill University Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 Knights Bachelor Members of Gray's Inn Tulane University faculty 20th-century British political scientists {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub