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Algernon Tudor-Craig

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Major Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig KBE FSA (3 January 1873 – 10 April 1943) was a British Army officer, heraldist and author of various works on art history, especially armorial porcelain.[1][2]

Tudor-Craig was an officer in the 4th (militia) battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles, where he was promoted captain on 27 August 1898, and major on 29 November 1902.[3] He served as Instructor of Musketry with the 8th Provisional Battalion in 1902.[4]

His first wife, whom he married in 1898, was Emily Mary Lukin (1866–1939). Lady Tudor-Craig was made CBE in 1920; they had one son James Tudor-Craig whose wife was Medieval Art Historian, Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig (née Wynn Reeves). In 1940, he remarried Grace Jennings.

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  1. ^ The Times, Monday, 12 Apr 1943; p. 6; Issue 49518; col E Obituary
  2. ^ 'TUDOR-CRAIG, Major Sir Algernon Tudor', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 3 Sept 2013
  3. ^ "No. 27501". The London Gazette. 5 December 1902. p. 8443.
  4. ^ Hart′s Army list, 1902