William Pugh

Honours and awards Pugh was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1931 giving his details as - Professor W. J. Pugh, O.B.E., B.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, London, S.W.7. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 for his contributions to the advancement of geological sciences and awarded the Murchison Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1952 for his studies on the stratigraphy and tectonics of the lower Palaeozoic Rocks of Wales. He was knighted in the 1956 Birthday Honours. He was President of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association in 1964–65.

Private life He retired in 1960 and died in London in 1974. He had married in 1919 Manon Clayton Davies Bryan, the second daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan of Alexandria, Egypt. They had four sons.