{{Short description|New Zealand painter and missionary}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} '''Annette (Anne) Ruddock''' (née '''Lush'''; 1857–1937) was a New Zealand painter and missionary.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d743.html|title=LUSH, Anne (Mrs Ruddock) 1857–1937 {{!}} NZETC|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://nzmuseums.co.nz/collections/3170/objects/398760/painting-untitled-faringdon-church|title=Painting, Untitled [Faringdon Church]; Anne Ruddock (nee Lush); 1878; XEC.56 on NZ Museums|website=eHive|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref>

== Biography == Lush was born in Howick, Auckland in 1857. Her father was Vicesimus Lush, the vicar of Howick, and her mother's name was Blanche.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nzmuseums.co.nz/collections/3170/objects/398763/sampler|title=Sampler; Anne Ruddock (nee Lush); 1869; XEC.2337 on NZ Museums|website=eHive|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref> In 1868, the family moved to Thames as he was transferred there, then to Hamilton in 1881 when he was transferred again.<ref name=":0" /> Lush's life centred around the church and she became a Sunday school teacher and volunteered for the Melanesia Mission. In 1880, Lush travelled to Norfolk Island as part of a church mission building a church there.<ref name=":1" /> On this mission, she met her future husband, David Ruddock, a vicar and later an archdeacon.<ref name=":0" /> They were married in 1885 in Auckland.

Due to her husband's assignments, Lush moved frequently to Australia and England. In 1903, he was posted to Wairoa in the Hawke's Bay.

Lush had six children; her two sons died in World War I. She died in 1937 aged 80.<ref name=":1" />

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