Of West Hill, Wandsworth and Farnham Surrey. He inherited the former from John Anthony Rucker and let Siegmund occupy it.

London West India and Hamburg merchant (in the latter case trading in wool), partner with Henry John Rucker and John Anthony Rucker in D. H. Rucker & Co. The firm failed in 1831, and the assignees Joseph Edlman and John William Borradaile (each of whom q.v.) were awarded compensation or claimed unsuccessfully in that capacity for awards in Tobago, Antigua and St Vincent,[for loss of slaves as a result of the 1834 Act] in most of which the Ruckers had been mortgagees. Daniel Henry Rucker himself also appears as an unsuccessful claimant in a couple of different capacities.

Will in the National Archives. He left his estate to John Anthony Rucker his nephew.