[3] He bought and ran the nightclub King Sauna in Chelsea, formerly a closed down gay club,[3] which was raided by the police and exposed by the News of the World.
[2] In the early 1960s he was short-listed to be the first actor to play James Bond, having come to the attention of the producers through having appeared in television cigarette advertisements, but Sean Connery was preferred.
At the end of the 1960 season, Pugh, whose batting according to The Daily Telegraph "hardly surpassed old Etonian standards"[4] was controversially appointed captain of Gloucestershire.
[5] In April 1962, Pugh organised a tour to Bermuda during which the county played a soccer match against the island team with Stanley Matthews guesting for Gloucestershire.
[8] In rackets, Pugh won the Public Schools Doubles for Eton in 1955 with Lord Chelsea, and was runner up in the Amateur Singles in 1967 and 1970.
[9] He won the Noel Bruce Cup (Old Boys Doubles) for Eton six times between 1962 and 1986 with James Leonard (1962, 1963 and 1965), David Norman (1964) and Willie Boone (1984 and 1986).
[9] He won the Combined Services Past and Present Singles in 1959, 1961 and 1965, and dominated the doubles for many years, winning with Lieutenant Commander Peter Kershaw (1958 and 1959), his brother Tim (1963, 1967 and 1972) and Geoffrey Atkins (1976, 1982, 1983 and 1984).