English family of artists, of French descent. (1) A. C. Pugin came to England c. 1792 and had a successful and wide-ranging career; however, his son (2) A. W. N. Pugin, the Gothic Revival architect, is the best-known member of the family. The latter's sons (3) E. W. Pugin, Peter Paul Pugin (1851-1904) and Cuthbert Welby Pugin (1840-1928), and his grandsons Sebastian Pugin Powell (1866-1949) and Charles Henry Cuthbert Purcell (1874-1958), were all architects.

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