William Hallam Tuck is a businessman American, born in 1890 with in the United States and deceased in 1966. April 15th, 1920, with the town hall of Antwerp, he marries the Belgian Hilda Bunge, resulting from one of the most fortunate families of the city. From this marriage were born three children, all in the commune of Uccle, where the couple had its main home.

Friend of the US president Herbert Hoover, it will support the Republican party, at the time of the re-election campaign of Mr Hoover at the White House in 1931. Tuck was also “Representative” in Brussels of CRB Educational Foundation Inc. (which will take the name into 1938 of Belgian-American Educational Foundation - BAEF ) and it sat within the Board of directors of the Fondation Hoover for the development of the University of Louvain . Foundation which contributed to the rebuilding of the university after the First World War, of which its library built during between two wars. Among the administrators of this foundation, one found large characters Belgian like the ex-first minister Paul van Zeeland, Félicien Cattier, or the count Edmond Carton of Wiart. Thereafter, one will also find there Jean Willems and the public prosecutor Raoul Hayoit de Termicourt.