by Paula Byrne
Birkenhead, 1st Earl, F. E. Smith 68
Birkenhead, 2nd Earl, Freddy Smith 53, 294
Birkett, Norman 252
‘Blackbirds’ (revue) 114, 138
Bloomsbury Set 126
Bognor (Sussex) 216–17, 247
the Bolshies (schoolboy group at Lancing) 30, 32, 42
The Bookman 106
Boston Globe 95
Bowen, Elizabeth 335
Bowlby, Henry T. 23, 33
Bowra, Maurice 60, 302, 304
Boyle, Johnny 166
Bracken, Brendan 1, 272, 281, 304
Bradford (butler at Madresfield) 131, 169, 263
The Bride of Frankenstein (film) 67, 132
Brideshead Revisited
and the Arctic connection 235
and Countess Beauchamp 7, 299, 314–15, 322, 330
and the deathbed conversion 326–9
and Gwen Plunket Greene 74
and homosexuality 309–17
and Hugh/Sebastian 104, 108–9, 112, 206, 215, 305–9
influences on 40, 41, 78, 114, 175, 238–9
and Lord Beauchamp/Marchmain 150–1, 322–4
and the Lygon sisters 163–4, 293, 317–21, 333
and Madresfield Court 93–4, 152, 153, 155, 158, 183, 271, 293, 324–6, 333, 349
Oxford connection 48–9, 60, 84, 302–5
proof copies sent to friends 297–8, 299
proofs and revisions 46, 294
and reactions to 299–302
and Roman Catholicism 70, 127, 128, 212, 288
and snobs and Catholics 329–32
and Venice 194, 195–6
and the War 271, 272, 285
Waugh given leave to write 1–3, 172, 289–91, 295–6
Brideshead (TV series) 7, 340
Brocklehurst, Charlie 213
Brooke, Rupert 28, 34, 43, 47
Brownlow, Lady Katherine 222, 252
Brownlow, Lord see Cust, Peregrine Francis Adelbert
Bryan, Miss (governess at Madresfield) 164, 169, 337
Buckley, Denys 39
Buckmaster, Lord 136, 137, 139, 142, 143, 146
Bullingdon Club (Oxford) 53, 94, 28384
Bullock, Captain Malcolm 216
Burgess, Guy 37
Burghclere, Lady 110
Burghclere, Lord 110
Bury, Lady Mairi 341
Bushell, Tony 76, 101
Byng, Douglas 149
Byron, Lord 191, 194
Byron, Robert Harcourt (valet-cum-secretary) 220, 247
Byron, Robert (travel writer) 42, 43, 55, 56–7, 59, 63, 71, 87, 88–93, 96, 103, 111, 115, 263
The Road to Oxiana 89
Cafe Royal (London) 75
Calviou, Madame 17
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry 97
Campion, Edward 238, 242, 245, 247
Capri 90
Caraman, Father 348
Carew, Dudley 28–9, 33, 60, 75, 105, 106
Carisbrooke, Lord 133
Carlisle, Lady 244
Carpenter, Edward
An Anthology of Friendship 132
‘Towards Democracy’ 132
Carrington, Dora 126
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland 8
Carstairs, Paddy 178
Cartland, Barbara 92–3
Castle Howard 325
Castlerosse, Doris 196
Castlerosse, Lord 122, 149
Catholic Underworld group 214
Cave of Harmony club (Charlotte St, London) 67
Cavendish Hotel (London) 116, 122, 339
Cazalet, Victor 129
Cecil, Lord David 39
Chagford (Devon) 2, 172, 178, 181, 182
Chamberlain, Joseph 95
Chanel, Coco 135
Channon, Henry ‘Chips’ 299, 322, 324
Chapman and Hall 5, 6, 104, 109, 342
Charles (pupil at Aston Clinton) 102
Chatto & Windus 82
Chesterfield, Lord 146
Chesterton, Mrs Cecil 70
Chesterton, G. K. 51
Chichester, Pam 276
Chichester (Sussex) 32
Christ Church College (Oxford) 49, 53, 94
Christian Review 95
Christie, Mr 206, 208
Churchill, Randolph 125, 193, 277, 278, 284, 285, 287, 291–2, 294, 296
Churchill, Winston 180, 278
Clarendon hotel (Oxford) 87
Clutton-Brock, Alan 42
Cobb, Carolyn 291
Cobb, Mrs 172
Cockburn, Claude 87
Cocteau, Jean 42
Collins, Michael 180
Colvin, Colonel 278
the Commandos 1
Connolly, Cyril 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43
Enemies of Promise 35, 40
Continental Daily Mail 150
Cooper, Diana 62, 121, 193, 196–7, 199, 201, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 237, 245, 260, 272, 286
Cooper, Duff 193, 260, 272
Corpse Club 32, 42
Corrigan, Laura 193
Corvo, Baron
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A
Venetian Romance 249
The Venice Letters 249–50
Cotterell, Richard 141, 277
Coventry, Countess of 255
Coventry, Diana 174–5
Coward, Noël 127
Cavalcade 177
Private Lives 185, 216
The Vortex 138
Crack, William 190
Crease, Francis 24–5, 27
Crete 279–81, 344
Crewe, Lady 285
Crewe, Lord 146
Cripp, Violet 149–50
Cruttwell, C. R. M. 50, 51, 95, 107, 110, 123
Cuba 262
Cunard, Lady Nancy 179, 180, 193
Curzon, Lady 108
Curzon, Lord 39, 55, 98
Cust, Harry 193
Cust, Peregrine Francis Adelbert, 6th Baron Brownlow ‘Perry’ or ‘Winkle’ 222, 252
The Cynic (school magazine) 16
Cyprus 112
Daily Express 140, 265, 316
Daily Mail 95, 123, 124, 245
Daily Sketch 90, 92, 116, 149, 172
D’Arcy, Father Martin 127, 214, 241
Dawlinson, Mr 32
The Dawn and Dusk Club (Sydney) 96
Deerhurst, Viscountess 255
De Gaulle, General Charles 274
Dean, Basil 177
Dempsey, Father 287
Dennis, Nigel 270
Devas, Father 287–8
Diaghilev, Sergei 41, 42
Dickens, Charles 6, 7
David Copperfield 3
Martin Chuzzlewit 208
Nicholas Nickleby 208
Dilettanti debating society (Lancing) 29
Donegall, Lord 122, 197
Dornonville de la Cour, Fru Else see Lygon, Mona
Douglas, Lord Alfred 65
Dover 91
Downing Street (London) 117, 162
Dreyfus, Alfred 96
Driberg, Tom 29, 47, 60, 106, 122, 128, 167, 233, 316
Duckworth (publisher) 105, 106, 109
Dudley, Lord 202
Duff, Sir Michael 143
Duggan, Alfred 55, 58, 213–14, 215, 216
Duggan, Hubert 39–40, 55, 108–9, 175, 176, 180, 202, 252, 259, 260, 263, 267, 287–8, 308, 325, 328
Duke, Doris 196 –7
Easton Court, Chagford (Devon) 2, 172, 178, 181, 182, 220, 238, 289, 290–1
Edinburgh 102–3
Edmund (pupil at Aston Clinton) 102
Edward VIII ‘David’ 137–8, 222, 259
Eighty Club 142
Elgar, Edward 72, 94
Eliot, T. S. 48
The Waste Land 303
Elizabeth (fiancée of Richard Plunket Greene) 79, 87, 100, 101, 150
Elizabeth, Princess (later Queen Elizabeth II) 271
Elmley, Lord see Lygon, William, Lord Elmley
Elwes, Richard 252–3, 255
Erskine, Hamish St Clair 174, 175
Eton 20, 28, 30, 33, 34–43, 94, 306
Eton Candle 40, 43, 48, 52
Eton College Chronicle 39
Eton Society of Arts 40 –1, 42
Eucharist Congress (Hungary, 1938) 264
Europa (ship) 262
Evening Standard 118, 246, 281
Faringdon House (Oxfordshire) 343
Fatima (prostitute) 219–20
Fawcett, Colonel 201
Ferguson, Colonel 1
Fermor, Patrick ‘Paddy’ Leigh 344
First World War 17–18, 20, 30, 34, 98, 165
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 105 –6
The Great Gatsby 123
Tender is the Night 189
This Side of Paradise 106
Fleming, Ann 280–1, 346, 347
Fleming family (aka the Roland Family) 9, 109, 317
Fleming, Ian 201, 346
Fleming, Peter, Brazilian Adventure 201
Fleming, Philippa 109
Florence 89–90
Forester’s Arms (Barnards Green) 165
Forhampton Court (Tewkesbury) 172, 177
Forster, E. M.
Howards End 74
Maurice 132
Fortnightly Review 311
Forty Years in the Frozen North 184
Fothergill, John 58–9, 63
The Friend Ship (sailing ship) 119
Fry, Jennifer 343
Fulford, Roger 29, 33
Gabbitas and Thring (‘Rabbitarse and String’) 75
Gardner, Evelyn see Waugh, Evelyn (1st wife)
Gaskell, Mary Milnes 153
Gassaway, Brian see Howard, Brian Christian de
Clavering
Gaythorne-Hardy, Eddie 107, 113
the George (Oxford) 86–7
George, Prince ‘Babe’ (later Duke of Kent) 137–40, 179, 219, 220, 267, 268, 320
George V 97, 98, 135–6, 137, 138, 139, 140, 247, 248
Gielgud, John 7
Gill, Joyce 245
Glen, Alexander 226 –35
Young Men in the Arctic 227, 232, 234–5
Goebbels, Joseph 126
Goodhart, Arthur 38–9
Graham, Alastair 61–2, 63, 65, 66, 74, 81–2, 85, 102–3, 104, 112, 120, 123, 128, 306, 308, 313
Graham, Mrs 102–3, 107
Grahame, Kenneth, Wind in the Willows 102
Grainger (Pekingese) 163 and note, 177, 178, 184, 209, 217, 220, 238, 259, 267, 272, 335, 340
Granada Television 7
Grand Pump Room Hotel (Bath) 211
Graphic 124, 152
Green, Henry see Yorke, Henry (aka Henry Green)
Greene, Graham 75
The End of the Affair 327
Greenidge, Terence 50–1, 56, 57, 59, 63, 67–9, 71, 79, 86, 90, 238, 306, 307
666 (film) 68
Brass and Paint 311
The City of the Plain (film) 68
Degenerate Oxford? 56, 311, 312–13
The Magnificent 311
The Mummers (film) 68
The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiatical
Melodrama (film) 68–70, 71, 85n
A Story of the Oxford Underworld 68
Gregory the Great, Pope 225
Grenfell, Granville 16
Grey, Earl 98
Grossmith, George and Weedon, Diary of a
Nobody 7
Grosvenor, Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of
Westminster ‘Benny’ or ‘Bendor’ 133–6, 136–7, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149, 165, 171, 221–2, 248, 251, 253, 255, 266, 336
Grosvenor, Lady Lettice see Lygon, Lady Lettice
Mary, Countess Beauchamp
Guinness, Bryan 115, 118, 121, 125, 211
Guinness, Diana (nee Mitford later Mosley) 62, 109, 111, 115, 118, 121, 124–6, 161, 190, 196, 211, 237, 269, 285
Guinness, Jonathan 125, 285
Hailes, Lord 346–7
Halkyn House (Belgrave Square, London) 11, 117, 130, 131, 136, 138, 141, 142, 145, 150, 179, 220, 226, 227, 251, 252, 262
Hammond, Wally 198
Hampstead 6, 7–8
Hance, Captain John 152, 153–4, 166, 170, 176, 177, 202, 209, 211, 255, 260
School for Horse and Rider 154, 169
Hance, Jackie 154, 170, 214, 255
Hance, Mima 154
Hance, Reggie 154, 255
Hanson, Walter 255
Hare, Augustus 89
Harpers & Queen 340
Harper’s Bazaar 162, 173, 188, 193–4, 196, 212, 238, 265
Harrison, Mr 202
Hart, Mr 206
Hartnell, Norman 115, 117, 163
Haynes, Mr (South American guide) 205
Heath Mount School (Golders Green) 5, 15–16
Heatherley’s Art School (Chelsea) 66
Heber Percy, ‘Mad Boy’ Robert Vernon 343–4
Helbert, Lionel 17
Henderson, Gavin 107
Henry, Prince 137
Herbert, Auberon 260
Herbert, Gabriel 215, 225
Herbert, Laura see Waugh, Laura (2nd wife)
Hertford College (Oxford) 44–5, 50, 54
Hertford Underworld (club) 50, 54
Heygate, John 114, 119, 120, 124
Highclere Castle 208–9
Hitler, Adolf 126
Hogarth Press 82
Holland, Anthony 226
Hollis, Christopher 60, 62, 67–8, 85, 128, 180, 272
Oxford in the Twenties 61
Home Guard 1
Home for Impoverished Clergymen 175
Hood, Jack 165, 214, 255
Hornyold Arms Hotel (Malvern Wells) 165, 175, 268
Household Cavalry Training Regiment 1
Housman, A. E. 324
A Shropshire Lad 47, 72
Howard, Brian Christian de Clavering 40–2, 43, 48, 52–3, 63, 102, 113, 238–9, 282–3, 297, 306
Huxley, Aldous 43
Hyde Park Hotel (London) 2, 289, 290, 291
Hypocrites’ Club (Oxford) 53–7, 58–9, 60–1, 63–5, 67–8, 71, 72, 78, 87, 162, 311, 317
Illustrated London News 116
Ingrid, Princess 138
Isherwood, Christopher 283
The World in the Evening 315
Isis 55, 69
Islington 111
Ivanovitch, Vsevolode 267–8, 275, 276, 284, 286–7, 288, 289, 290, 334, 337, 338
Jagger, Miss 160, 164, 167
Janze, Phyllis de 175, 287
Jardine, Douglas 198
Jerusalem 246
Jessel, Edward 174, 175, 176, 242, 263
John, Augustus 125
Jouray, Colonel de 334
Joyce, James 48
Jungman, Teresa ‘Baby’ 62, 126, 128, 139, 153, 154, 158–9, 166–7, 171, 172, 174, 177, 178, 179, 199, 213, 218, 238, 292, 319
Jungman, Zita 126
Karloff, Boris 131
Kavanagh, Julie 340
Keats, John 159, 310
Kinross, Lord see Balfour, Patrick
Kipling, Rudyard 166
Knox, Ronald 33, 63, 164, 167, 241, 288, 349
Korda, Alexander 1
La Pietra (Tuscan mansion) 41, 89
Laking, Sir Francis 114
Lamb, Henry 125
Lanchester, Elsa 67, 69, 132
Lancing College (Sussex) 21, 22–34, 46, 58, 281
The Lancing Magazine 32
Larwood, Harold 198
Lavery, Hazel 180, 201, 203, 211, 240
Lavery, Sir John 180
Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley’s Lover 18
Laycock, Robert ‘Chucker’ 167, 275, 276–8, 279–80, 285
Lea, Thom 202
Leamington Spa 81
Lee of Fareham, Lord 133
Lepicier, Cardinal Alexis 187, 191
Leslie, Shane 35
Lewis, Rosa ‘the Duchess of Duke Street’ 116, 122, 123, 339
Life magazine 281
Lloyd George, David 135, 146, 250
Lo
ndon Gazette 181
London Library 336
Longleat (Wiltshire) 238
Losch, Tilly 196
Lucy (nurse) 5, 8
Lundy Island 79
Lygon, Dorothy ‘Coote’ or ‘Poll’ (1912–2001)
121, 161, 211
and the affair of her father 136, 145
at Evelyn’s wedding to Laura 260, 261
bewails the lack of news and gossip 149–50
childhood 11–15
correspondence with her father 130, 247
crushes and affairs 72, 88
and death of her father 264
and death of her mother 253
and death of Hugh 254, 256–7
debts of 262
dislike of Bendor 136
and the Evelyn-Jungman relationship 199
Evelyn’s friendship and correspondence with
141–2, 169–70, 172–3, 176, 179, 181–5, 189, 192, 216, 217, 218, 238, 284, 290, 333, 338
fictionalised by Waugh 295, 319, 331
as happy to be single 268
introduces Evelyn to Captain Hance 153
and life at Madresfield 162–7
looks after Evelyn after the plane crash
292–4, 296
post-war life and death 334–5, 342–6
reaction to Brideshead 298, 305, 308, 318–19, 324, 325
and the Second World War 284
Lygon, Frederick, 6th Earl Beauchamp
(1830–91) 93–4
Lygon, Henry (1829–66) 93
Lygon, Hugh ‘Hughie’ (1904–36) 74, 76, 91, 92, 100, 104, 126, 153, 238
21st birthday celebrations 86–7, 88
aimless life of 129–30, 162
Arctic adventure 226, 227–35
at Eton 36–7, 38, 39–40, 42–3
at Madresfield 245
at Oxford 47–8, 51, 53, 54, 56–7, 64
becomes a racehorse trainer 149, 167
caricatured in Punch 116
childhood 10–15
close friendship with Evelyn 233–5
and death of his mother 254
death of 254–7, 258–9
as dipsomaniac 71–2, 103, 162, 169, 170–1, 175, 213, 226, 227–8
fictionalised by Waugh 83–4, 151, 283, 299, 300, 302, 305–11, 313–14, 320–2, 322–3, 328
homosexuality of 70, 163, 171
in Paris 103
petitions for bankruptcy 181
poor letter writing 167, 168
school days 16–18
supports his father in exile 147–8, 167, 197–8, 203–4, 217–18, 220
visits to Italy 89, 90, 189
as Waugh’s lover 62–3, 64–5
Lygon, Lady Lettice Mary, Countess
Beauchamp (nee Grosvenor)
(1876–1936) 11, 12–13, 15, 89, 90, 97, 130, 133, 134, 136, 140–2, 143–5, 147–9, 171, 173, 177, 181, 204, 211, 250, 252–4, 299, 314–15, 322, 330
Lygon, Lettice, later Lady Cotterell (1906–1973)
11, 88, 116, 136, 141, 161, 264, 277
