Thereza Rucker

Her father, Nevil Story Maskelyne, was a politician and a professor of mineralogy at Oxford and her mother, Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn of Penllergare House, was a leading scientist studying astronomy and photography.

[1] Rucker was granddaughter of the Welsh botanist and photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn and a great-granddaughter of Nevil Maskelyne, who served as Astronomer Royal.

[1] She married on 7 September 1892 becoming the second wife of Arthur William Rücker who was the Principal of the University of London.

[3] In 1908 hygiene lecturer Alice Ravenhill, Hilda D. Oakeley and Rucker created a home science course at King's College, London in the Women's Department.

[4] By 1920 it was a subject for a degree and in 1928 the King's College of Household and Social Science was formed to further their initial idea.

King's College of Household and Social Science Degree Students in 1920
Her family's memorial in Yattendon