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27 Mosman St Click here for some photos of the family in the 1980s Click here for photos of the family from the 1990s onwards. Click here for photos of family outings Prue and the children moved to Sydney in December 1982 and lived first at Waverley, Bronte before buying their house at 27 Mosman St in 1984. In 2004 Prue (and Charles) moved to Park Avenue , Mosman The children went to various schools between 1983 and 1995 including Ascham , Cranbrook and Frensham On leaving Frensham, Radha worked at Bain & Co and in 1995 made her first visit to Amsterdam with her boyfriend George. They came to Herry's 50th birthday party at Stocks in June 1995. Radha again visited Amsterdam and London in 1988 She suffered a stoke in November 2002 but miraculously recovered and in June 2004 married Neil Macpherson, but divorced in 2009. The family had various holidays together - Noosa in the 80s; Boodle had hoidays in Corsica and Tunisia with Herry and Edward and Bo...

It's not clear where the Lawford family originated, but it seems probable that some of them either took their name from or gave their name to the villages of Church Lawford and Long Lawford near Rugby. There is also a village called Lawford near Manningtree in Essex, with a fine church and large house - Lawford Hall - overlooking the River Stour which used to have the Lawford coat of arms over the door*. Both Church Lawford and Lawford in Essex are named in the Domesday Book, so it is likely that a family of that name existed well before 1086 when it was compiled. Some reflections on the family's connection with both Rugby and Maningtree appear here . There is also a note here from the Internet Surname Database that has some further unchecked details. The Lawford Family Tree complied by Reginald Ames in the 1880s. It's readable if you click the image The family tree drawn up by Reginald Ames in the 1880s shows the lineage back to Robert Lawford (1581 - 1641) of C...

Early in 1984, Bill Birch Reynardson asked Herry to leave P&I and help start a new Miller club for shipagents and shipbrokers, known as TIM (Transport Intermediaries Mutual). Herry was reluctant to do so, knowing very little of that world and enjoying being the manager of Syndicate 1 with its collection of Japanese, Indian and blue-chip Greek Members. However Bill persisted and Herry left International House in September to move across the road to Creechurch House where the new office was being set up. Prior to his move, he had had a day with Francis Frost, the creator of the concept of TIM, at his house in Suffolk, and been convinced that it could work, and be amusing! He was joined his partner Charles Goldie, who was to be the eminence grise on the project, Malcolm Bird and Geoffery Roome, both of whom had been seconded to it and been working on it for some time. Herry's long-time secretary Jo Johns also came with him. David Martin-Clark gave a great deal of moral and p...

Hrvoje Kačić - known universally as Harry - became a friend from my first visit to Yugoslavia with Bill Birch Reynardson in 1969. Click the heading for photos of Harry and see his entry in Wikipedia here

Venky - as he is universally known, has been a close friend for nearly 40 years. We met in Bombay in 1972, when I was on my first visit to India . For photos of Venky, click the heading

The Pugh's are an old family with a long Welsh pedigree going back to the Welsh prince Rhodri Mawr, King of Powys in 867. They retained their importance throughout the middle ages and the Pugh’s of Mathavarn (the farm of Mathavarn is to be found north east of Machynlleth) were one of Wales most prominent families for several centuries. It is believed that Henry Tudor’s army camped at Mathavarn en route to battle of Bosworth (1485) and that Dafyd Llwd ap Llewellyn (a Pugh ancestor) sent his son with Henry to fight in the battle. Later in 1644 the house was burnt down by Parliamentary soldiers as the then owner Rowland Pugh, (a former sheriff of both Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire), was a staunch Royalist. Later his grandson John Pugh, a barrister, represented the borough of Montgomery in Parliament from 1702 to 1727. The estate was sold in 1752. Elizabeth Pugh (1808 – 74) & John Evans (1804 – 74) Elizabeth (or Eliza, as she was known), daughter of Lewis of Aberystwyth a...

Dear Mr. Lawford, I recently came across your blog on your grandfather, Colonel A J Pugh. I had been looking out for information on Col. Pugh since I read his oral evidence to the Franchise Committee of 1918-19. There he advocated joint electorates for Indians and Europeans in order to build racial harmony and improve relations among the two communities. This proposal was quite fascinating and stood apart from the evidence from the other representatives of the European community in India. Furthermore, Col Pugh had also initiated the presentation of a joint address by Europeans and Indians of Calcutta to Edwin Montague, the then Secretary of State for India and Lord Chelmsford the Viceroy in 1917 asking for sub-provincial autonomy- one finds this aspect to be a precursor of the linguistic reorganization of states in India of 1956. What fascinates me the most is that Col Pugh made this proposal when he was connected with the upper echelons of the Raj, his father being the Attorney Gene...

Herry was born at  Litchfield  and brought up in the  Meon Valley , about fifteen miles from Southampton. Although he has lived in London for many years, he keeps many links to Hampshire - and to the law faculty which now, in the  Institute of Maritime Law , has the premier maritime law school in the country. After graduation in 1967 he started work for a City firm,  Thomas Miller  which happens to be one of the five founding firms of the Institute. He has a number of friends among the faculty as a result. Millers manage a number of mutual insurance 'clubs', including the  Bar Mutual , which insures every barrister in England and Wales, and the Solicitors' Club, SIMIA , which takes a line on many solicitors' PI insurances. Herry worked mainly for the largest club, the  UK P&I Club  until 1984, dealing with marine liability claims and handling some fascinating casualties . He travelled constantly to talk to shipowners, lawyers and the l...

My brother Piers was born on 9th May 1947 at a nursing home in Sevenoaks. He lived with the family at Danegate until 1950 when we moved to Stocks Farm . Thereafter we grew up together on the farm, playing together and 'ragging' constantly. Piers followed Fuff and me to St Ronan's in 1955 and then in 1960 went on to Stowe where he excelled at cricket and long distance running, and became a good musician and singer, playing the organ as well as the piano. Leaving Stowe he studied at the London Hospital for his medical exams, living with me at 10 Shouldham St , where he managed to install a piano in the back bedroom. On qualifying, he worked at Northwood and Poole Hospital before going up to spend five years at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . In 1976 he married Margaret Lammond, a nursing sister at the hospital and shortly afterwards took a job at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital , and moved to Coventry. In 1982 Mhairi was born. St Ronan's 1955-60 Stowe 1961-66 Ro...

Annette Pugh and Arthur Luxmoore's wedding at Litchfield on 20th March 1935. Photo taken in the garden at Dunley. Left to right: Katie Luxmoore, James (Jimmie) Pugh, Launcelot Luxmoore (Arhur's father), Nanny (to the Pugh children), Coryndon Luxmoore (Arthur's brother and best man), Constance Luxmoore (Arthur's mother), Arthur Noble Luxmoore, Annette Rosemary Pugh, Archie Pugh, Auriol Powell Edwards, Hubert Luxmoore, Nina (Lady Herbert), Sir Alfred Herbert, Ivor Pugh, Imogen Precott. In font: David Pugh and Michael Pugh. For more photos of the wedding and Arthur Luxmoore, click here For Fairfax Luxmoore, click here The Luxmoore family - originally Luk's or Luke's Moor - originated in Devon, on the western side of Dartmoor. Henry Luxmoore (born 1695) and his immediate descendants lived at Oakhampton where they held the living. Click here for more Luxmoore family photos Return to Archive Index Return to Wing-Commander Arthur Luxmoore  Return to...

Col Archie Pugh (standing, in light suit) with colleagues in Calcutta. He was Colonel of the Calcutta Light Horse from 1912 - 1922 and founded Pugh & Co, Solicitors in Calcutta. Click the heading for some more photos Col Archie John Pugh CBE, VD, Herry's grandfather, was born on 3rd December 1871 in Wales and died at Cwmcoedwig, Llanfarian on 15th June 1923. He was educated at Winchester and married Marian 'Nina" Fraser Arundel, second daughter of Sir Arundel Tagg Arundel in Calcutta on 28th December 1894 . The wedding of Lt-Col Archie Pugh and Nina Arundel in Calcutta Cathedral in December 1904. For the names of those appearing in this photo, click here His father was Lewis Pugh Pugh (1837- 1908) JD, DL, MP of Abermad and Cymmerau who was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi, Oxford and and Member of Parliament from 1880 to 1885. He married Veronica Harriet Hills (1844-1931), daughter of James Hills of Neechandapore and Charlotte Marie Savi , in Calcu...

John Tubb (2002)

Sir Alfred Herbert KBE Alfred Herbert was born in 1866, the son of a farmer, William Herbert . His father, in addition to farming at Whetstone Gorse, owned a town house in Leicester, to which the family retired in winter. Alfred Herbert was educated at Stoneygate , a local private school where he excelled at English, science and divinity, and was expected to go on to university or into the church until he met up with an old school friend William Hubbard, who worked on a lathe at Joseph Jessop's Engineering Co in Leicester. Herbert was fascinated by what the small lathe produced, so he persuaded his father to let him follow his friend's example. Subsequently he became an apprentice at Jessops and thereafter joined Coles and Mathews, a firm of engineers in The Butts, Coventry. When Matthews retired, Herbert and Hubbard bought the company in partnership with help from their fathers. The partnership was dissolved in two years and Alfred founded the company which bore his name,...

Herry was extremely fortunate in being able to travel widely from the early days of his work with Thomas Miller, first to Italy (to review some 'grain cases' which were due to heard in the Italian courts with the Genoa lawyers Mordiglia . There he met Aldo Mordiglia and his sons as well as ) Then to Yugoslavia with Bill Birch Reynardson (and often his wife Nik) to meet the shipowners, lawyers and insurers there. His first contacts in Yugoslavia were with Marin Kruzecevic (Zagreb) Dr Hrvoje Kacic and his wife Jenny (Dubrovnik) Dr Tomasic (Belgrade Dr Zoran Radovic (Belgrade) Tomo Badurina (and his wife Linda and son Berislav) (Zagreb) Robert Stude (Zagreb) Bare Terzic (Split) Slobo Anicic (Split) Peter Musladin (Dubrovnik) Michel Dorcic (Rijeka)

EULOGY TO ALBERT MELVILLE WATSON Delivered by his daughter Penny Crittle during his funeral service held on 21st October 2002 It is my honour to stand before you today to talk about Patience’s loving husband, the father of Prue, Andrew and myself, the grandfather of our children and the great grandfather of their children. And of course the special friend of all of you present. This family comes here today to acknowledge our special man. Whilst we grieve for our loss we wish to acknowledge it is our grief and that Dad lived the life he wished to lead – in many ways a blessed life. He did not suffer and wished to leave us when he did. He told me before he died that he had had a ‘great innings’ and this is the truth. To us this ceremony is one of celebration. Dad was a man of many fine qualities and many achievements. For me his most extraordinary quality was a total lack of avarice whilst living in a culture in which the dominant paradigm is one of greed – more and more, bigger an...

Stocks and Harvestgate in 1973. Click the heading for more photos  Under Patrick, Stocks (with the addition of Harvestgate) became one of the finest farms in the Meon Valley, regularly winning prizes for its crops. In the early days, sugar beet and potatoes were grown alongside the oats, wheat and barley, and beef cattle were reared and there were sheep on the downs. But as time went on, the farm became essentially purely an arable farm, particularly well known for the quality of its barley. In later years, Patrick took specialist advice on fertilizers and soil quality which improved yields significantly, and when he turned 80 in 1994, turned over much of the day to day management of the farm to his neighbour Stephen Horn, who maintained it to the same high standard - and still does today (2008).    The caption reads: 'Hampshire farming at its very best - harvesting on Old Winchester Hill, Warnford" Hampshire Magazine's photo of Stocks Down and the...

This is an extract from The Llanbadarn Churchyard by AW Gilbey This section of the Churchyard of St. Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr, is used exclusively for burials by the Evans family, owners of the Lovesgrove Estate . The Evans family also have a vault in the older, closed section of the Churchyard at A139. When Sir Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans died in 1902 he left three sons and four daughters and the Lovesgrove estate passed to one of his sons, Lewis Pugh Evans . Lewis Pugh Evans was the second son of the Evans family and he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst before entering the Army with a commission in the Black Watch with whom he served in the Boer War in South Africa: there he received the Queen's Medal and later the King's Medal. After service with the Black Watch in India Lewis Pugh Evans returned to England and obtained a pilot's certificate and when the First World War broke out in 1914 he was posted as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps but after a...

Penny Hitchcock  lived in Bishops Waltham and went out with Herry for four years from 1965, when he was at university and also when he subsequently moved to  10 Shouldham St  to work at  Millers .  Penny herself moved to London in about 1965 - first to No 9 Bolton Gardens, then Rowland Gardens and Harrington Gardens. Her flat-mates were Sarah (Weemus) Keen (later Couzens) and Lynn Proudlock. Penny worked for Hutchinson the publishers and then Chamberlain, Powell and Bon (who designed the Barbican). Later she married Andrea Cenci di Bello, an architect, and had a son, Lorenzo, who married in 2006. Penny was for a time a City of London councillor,.  She now lives in Switzerland.  Click here to return to the Archive Index

The Futatsumori ('Two Forests') family come from a village of the same name in Aomori, near where Ayako's parents Juro and Shizue lived. It's a large village and members of the family still live there, including a cousin who is a local politician. There is a fine bridge nearby which bears the family crest. Juro moved to Tokyo before the war, and served with the Japanese army in China. Ayako's mother's family, the Takahashi's, are from Tokyo. Shizue Takahashi and Juro Futatsumori were married and returned to Aomori in the 1950s where he became a schoolteacher, later the headmaster of a local primary school. He was also a noted kendo master . Shizue had seven children, the eldest being Taeko, who lives in Aomori City; Ayako (1955) being the youngest. Osamu is the oldest brother, but a second brother, Seiko , had a breakdown at the age of 19 and went into a home. He died in July 2007. Of the three other sisters, Junko married an American Seymour Bogitc...

Albert Melville Watson (1920-2002) was educated at Geelong and became a highly successful businessman (known to his friends as 'Multi') starting a mining business after the war with his father Albert Henry Watson. They acquired the rights (some say they won them playing golf) to mine the beaches and hinterland of the Gold Coast for minerals such as rutile. He sold the mining business when still in his 40s and diversified by investing in the manufacture of mining tools (A1 Hardchrome) and importing clothes (Fila). He was a fine golfer, captain of the Australian Golf Club 1960-1962, played bowls for New South Wales and was an excellent bridge player, playing at international level. He also liked to play high-stakes poker with the likes of Kerry Packer.   He married Timmie (Norma Doris) Fleming in 1944 and they had three children - Penny , Prue and Andrew - who grew up in the family house, Somerset, at 62 Wentworth Road, Vaucluse . They were divorced in the 1960s and Mel marri...

Litchfield has played a large part in the lives of the family since the 1930s and the little church of St James the Less is the family church. My grandmother Nina , Sir Alfred Herbert's third wife, attended church there with Sir Alfred from Dunley . In 1930, Sir Alfred had the low retaining wall on the roadside of the churchyard built as well as the path up to the porch while the family of his second wife, Florence Pepper, erected the lytchgate in her memory . My mother Annette was married to Arthur Luxmoore there in 1935 and my father Patrick's first wife Catherine Lawford (nee Stephenson) was buried there in 1941. Herry was christened there in Sept 1945, when the family was living at Litchfield Manor Sir Alfred Herbert was interred there with Florence in 1957 (a service that was followed by a memorial service in Coventry Cathedral). Nina donated the organ to the church in memory of Sir Alfred, commorated by a plaque Many of the Dunley and Litchfield est...