Andrew W. Pitt

24^th July 1945 - 19^th December 2021

After coming down from Queens’ Andrew studied for his Law final at Guildford Law School, and afterwards took Articles at the London Borough of Greenwich.  He played rugby for a social side where he made many friends who remained friends throughout his life.  When time permitted, he also played cricket, squash and sailed. 

He married Gill (whom he had met while sailing) in 1969 and they had three sons who all followed him in his love of sport - many enjoyable hours were spent on the touch line during their school days.  The boys are all married and he and Gill have 6 grandchildren.

After a few years working in Local Government, he decided to enter private practice, firstly with a firm in Lincoln’s Inn and afterwards with a smaller firm in the West End where he later became Senior Partner. In 1997 he decided to leave London and continue to work as a Deputy District Judge and a Tribunal Chairman for the Department of Work & Pensions for which he had trained and worked alongside his private practice work.

He and Gill moved to West Wittering in West Sussex which they had been visiting and where they had sailed as a family for many years.  This meant sailing and racing high-performance dinghies and cruising the Solent and beyond. Sailing has always been a way of life for the whole family and Andrew loved it when the three families all visited when he would help the children, to whom he was devoted, and encourage and watch them as they took advantage of all the water activities which were available.

He was never happier than cooking on the barbecue and dispensing a glass of wine after a day on the water!  

Gill Pitt

June 2022