Maurice Ruffer

Maurice Pierre Ruffer (1 May 1857 – 20 February 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 Leipzig and Lyon. 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.

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 Jonathan Ruffer; 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, 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. In 1923, the lease passed to Francis Ellis, a merchant of 26 & 27 Farringdon Street. In 1955, the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain purchased the lease of the house as their headquarters.

Death Ruffer died on 20 February 1935.