Dr Griffith Pugh 1909 - 1994
Griffith Pugh with his daughter Harriet Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh was born at Cotton Manor, Shrewesbury, Somerset on 29th October 1909, the son of Lewis Pugh Evans Pugh KC, my great-grandfather. He married Josephine Helen Cassel , daughter of Sir Felix Cassel , 1st Bt. and Lady Helen Grimston on 5 September 1939. He died on 23 December 1994. He graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and an MA in Law. He always went by his middle name of Griffith - and was usually called 'Griff'. Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh, physiologist and mountaineer: born Shrewsbury 29 October 1909; married 1939 Josephine Cassel (three sons, one daughter); died Harpenden 22 December 1994. Griffith Pugh was best known for his contribution to the success of the 1953 British Everest expedition led by John Hunt during which Edmund ...