P. D. Gordon Pugh

Surgeon Rear Admiral P. D. Gordon Pugh, OBE, FRCS, was born in Carshalton, Surrey and educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge before pursuing a successful career in the Royal Navy eventually rising to the rank of Surgeon Rear Admiral. Pugh is the father of endurance swimmer and former lawyer Lewis Gordon Pugh. He was a prolific collector of naval ceramics and the benefactor of The Pugh Collection of Victorian Staffordshire Figures. He is a published author.

• P.D. Gordon Pugh. Nelson and his surgeons E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1968
• P.D. Gordon Pugh. Naval Ceramics. The Ceramic Book Co., Newport, England 1971.
• P.D. Gordon Pugh. The History of the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. I. The life and times of Captain Richard Creyke. J R Nav Med Serv. 1972 Summer;58(2):78-94.
• P.D. Gordon Pugh. The History of the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. II. 'A walk around the Hospital.' J R Nav Med Serv. 1972 Winter;58(3):207-26.