The son of a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Tuff played first-class cricket for Oxford University and the Free Foresters, before serving in the First World War, in which he was killed from wounds sustained during a bomb accident while taking part in the Gallipoli Campaign.
[4] Tuff also represented the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team in a first-class match against a combined Army and Navy cricket team at Aldershot in 1910,[2] in which he also took a five wicket haul with figures of 7 for 47 in the Army and Navy first-innings.
[1] He made a final appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Oxford University in 1914.
[2] Tuff served in the British Army during World War I, enlisting with the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles as a second lieutenant in June 1915.
[6] He saw action during the Gallipoli campaign and was seriously wounded in a bomb accident at Cape Helles.