Further Pugh and Evans's Involvement in India
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.
Sir Griffith Pugh Evans's eldest daughter Alice Mary married Richard Townsend Greer in 1902. At that time he was Chairman of the Calcutta Corporation though he was later to become commissioner of Behar and Orissa, Inspector General of the Police of Bengal and a member of the Governors Executive Council. He was the fifth son of the Rev. George Greer, rector of County Down and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. A keen rugby player he represented the College, the Wanderers and the North of Ireland and gained international honour in 1876 when he played, as one of a team of twenty, for Ireland.
In 1877 he entered the Indian Civil Service where he rapidly rose to prominence; a Freemason, he was to be Deputy Grand Master of Bengal. A prominent figure in Calcutta, he set up the Indian Youth Athletic Club and was awarded the Companionship of the Star of India in 1904. In 1912 the couple returned to Llanbadarn Fawr to live at Dolau and became a J.P. in 1917; the couple had four children of whom three survived.
Gladys Gwendolyn Alice was the third child of Richard and Alice Greer and married Arthur Lindsay Lyell at Llanbadarn in October 1931 but died three years later in Calcutta.
