Herry's Archives

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,...