Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett FRS FRSE (23 April 1897 – 21 July 1968) was a British physiologist.

[1] He was born in North Kensington in London, the son of Arthur Henry Richard Huggett ( a lecturer in botany at Goldsmiths College) and his wife, Helen Mary McCarthy, an active Suffragette of Irish descent.

He was educated by a private governess until 12 years old then at Wimbledon College then studied medicine at the University of London.

[1] His training was interrupted by the First World War during which he served 1918 to 1919 with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Murmansk, supporting British troops in the ill-judged invasion of Russia after the German surrender.

His proposers for the latter were Robert Campbell Garry, Norman Davidson, Hamish Munro and Paul Bacsich .