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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 a...