Somerville Pinkney Tuck

Somerville Pinkney Tuck (September 24, 1848 – April 14, 1923) was an American judge who served on the international Mixed Courts of Egypt and was regarded as "one of the leading jurists and lawyers of Europe." His maternal grandparents were Philemon Lloyd Chew (who was twice a member of the Governor's Council) and Ann Maria Bowie ( Brookes) Chew. Tuck's mother was the great-niece of Gov. Robert Bowie and a granddaughter of Maj. Benjamin Brookes, of the Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War.

Tuck was educated at St. John's College and studied law at the University of Virginia with the class of 1869. In his work, he was frequently called to Paris, where he became fluent in the language. "From 1882 to 1885, he was the Commissioner of the Court of Alabama Claims, and in 1885 was appointed by Secretary Bayard as special agent to search for evidence in England, France, Spain, Belgium, and the West Indies in relation to the French spoliation claims, at which time he secured evidence of the capture and condemnation of more than 1,500 vessels." a mixed tribunal which decided questions between native and foreign populations.

Personal life Tuck married Emily Rosalie Snowden Marshall (1858–1940), a daughter of Sara Rebecca Nicholls ( Snowden) Marshall and Col. Charles Marshall of Baltimore, a Confederate Adjutant and aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee. Together, they were the parents of:

Carola Marshall Tuck (1889–1995), who married British soldier John Digby Mills, later MP, in 1918. William Hallam Tuck (1890–1965), who married Belgian heiress Hilda Bunge, a daughter of Édouard Bunge. Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1891–1967), a diplomat who married Beatrice Beck, only daughter of former U.S. Representative and Solicitor General James M. Beck, in 1924. They divorced in 1934 and he married heiress Katherine Whitney ( Demme) Douglas (1897–1981) in 1936. Alexander John Marshall Tuck (1892–1955), who married Eugenie Ambrose Philbin (1893–1931), a daughter of Eugene A. Philbin, in 1923. After her death, he married Margaret ( Screven) White (1903–1964), daughter of Franklin Buchanan Screven, in 1932. They divorced (she later married Angier Biddle Duke) and he married Princess Donna Christiana ( Torlonia) Lord, a daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, in 1942. They also divorced and he married Edith Eleanor ( Holt) Richmond (1898–1982), a daughter of Frank A. Holt, in 1946.

Tuck died in Menton in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to the Italian border, on April 14, 1923. His widow died at their daughter's home, Bisterne Manor in New Forest, England, in 1940.