Ruth Stevens Howard 1910 - 2010
Ruth (on the right) and Annette aged about 10, with Annette's brother Ivor . Click on the heading for more photos from Ruth's family album Ruth Howard (nee Pugh, later Stevens and finally Howard), was born in London in 1910. He father was Lewis Pugh Evans Pugh KC (1865 - 1940) who was born in Calcutta, educated at Winchester and Corpus, Oxford and was a Puisne Judge between 1910-1914. Ruth's mother was Emily Ada Sophia Chaplin ('Loll') (1867-1953). Ruth was brought up in Wales with her brother Griffith and four sisters, Veronica, Gwladys, Phyllis and Roasmunde, and was very close to my mother Annette (born in Darjeeling in 1911), her first cousin. Click here for some early reminicences about Ruth and also my mother Annette She married Capt Barry Stevens DSO, DSC, RN and lived at the Manor House Warnford , close to Stocks Farm . Barry Stevens had been married before and had two daughters, Sarah and Biddy. Together they had Auriol...