Talk:Robert Stanford Tuck

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 06:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: This 'denys cavendish' article can safely take the prize for the most completely incorrect article on Wikipedia!!
Bob Tuck was not shot down in 1940, was not executed in 1944, and was not even in Sagan at the time of the Great Escape.
I respectfully suggest the link is denied and the article deleted. Harryurz 10:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DO NOT MERGE - as user Harryurz, Denys Cavendish appears to be a work of fiction and no connection with Robert Standford Tuck. MilborneOne 21:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How bizarre! Oppose Merge for all the above reasons and more, there was no Denys Cavendish other than a fictional character. How do you go about the process of deleting (AfD) the  Denys Cavendish article entirely? FWIW Bzuk 18:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Request 

message: I've heard some doubt/ speculation about the claim that Tuck was Jewish or of Jewish ancestry. It would be nice to have a firm inline citation for that info. So far I am able to find only two RS that seem to suggest the fact:
* (in a caption, no reference)
* (lists him in discussion of Jewish Battle of Britain pilots)
Neither of these is a definitive biographical work, and probably just repeating claims made elsewhere. Can we get a better source Catrìona (talk) 20:57, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Why I cant see that it is important or relevant to his notability. MilborneOne (talk) 23:34, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not important, but facts are to be checked. It seems that his parents were Stanley Lewis Tuck (officer in the Royal West Surrey Regiment in WW1) and Ethel Constance Baker. His paternal grandparents (with some doubts): John Tuck and Helen Stitchley. Were they Jewish? No idea. It seems that some years ago one of Stanford Tuck's sons alleged that so far as he knew his family was not Jewish. Anyway, can the surname Tuck be Jewish (and German)? The answer is yes. See Adolph  Tuck. His sons Reginald and Desmond Tuck were officers in 1914 of the 3rd City of London Yeomanry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.17.217.143 (talk) 11:35, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

text: Whatever his background it is not really relevant to his notability and as you say the referencing is a bit iffy, I would just remove the statement. MilborneOne (talk) 19:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish 

message: Was Stanford just a middle name or part of the surname? There are nowadays some people surnamed Stanford-Tuck, for instance Michael Stanford-Tuck, and I might say they are Standford Tuck's heirs or at least relatives. Stanford Tuck had two sons: Michael D.S. Tuck and Simon R.S. Tuck, and in both cases the 'S' I would say that stands for Stanford. In this case, which was the surname of Stanford Tuck's father? Lewis, Tuck, Stanford, Stanford-Tuck? Aside from current webs on genealogy, I'm unable of finding any reference of Captain Stanley Lewis or Stanley Lewis Tuck, Royal West Surrey Regiment.
:Surname was "Tuck" - Captain Stanley Lewis Tuck (1887-1970) served in the Royal West Sussex Regiment refer http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5629124 MilborneOne (talk) 11:30, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.99.89.51 (talk) 11:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which was his surname? Tuck or Stanford-Tuck?