Editing John Ruskin (section)

===Genealogy===
Ruskin was the only child of first cousins.<ref name="Intro">{{cite ODNB|author-link=Robert Hewison|first=Robert |last=Hewison| id=24291 | title=Ruskin, John (1819–1900)}}</ref> His father, John James Ruskin (1785–1864), was a sherry and wine importer,<ref name="Intro"/> founding partner and ''de facto'' business manager of Ruskin, Telford and Domecq (see [[Allied Domecq]]). John James was born and brought up in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, to a mother from [[Glenluce]] and a father originally from [[Hertfordshire]].<ref name="Intro"/><ref>Helen Gill Viljoen, ''Ruskin's Scottish Heritage: A Prelude'' (University of Illinois Press, 1956) {{page needed|date=August 2012}}.</ref> His wife, Margaret Cock (1781–1871), was the daughter of a publican in [[Croydon]].<ref name="Intro"/> She had joined the Ruskin household when she became companion to John James's mother, Catherine.<ref name="Intro"/>

John James had hoped to practise law, and was articled as a clerk in London.<ref name="Intro"/> His father, John Thomas Ruskin, described as a grocer (but apparently an ambitious wholesale merchant), was an incompetent businessman. To save the family from bankruptcy, John James, whose prudence and success were in stark contrast to his father, took on all debts, settling the last of them in 1832.<ref name="Intro"/> John James and Margaret were engaged in 1809, but opposition to the union from John Thomas, and the problem of his debts, delayed the couple's wedding. They finally married, without celebration, in 1818.<ref>Helen Gill Viljoen, ''Ruskin's Scottish Heritage'' (University of Illinois Press, 1956) {{page needed|date=August 2012}}</ref> John James died on 3 March 1864 and is buried in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, Croydon.
[[File:JJ Ruskin grave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The grave of John James Ruskin, father of John Ruskin, in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, [[Shirley, London|Shirley]], Croydon]]