by Paula Byrne
Lygon, Mary (1869–1927) 94, 96
Lygon, Mary ‘Maimie’ or ‘Blondy’ (1910–82)
122, 149, 184, 189
and the affair of her father 136, 142, 236
appears in advert for Marshall & Snelgrove 116
asked to be godmother to Auberon 272–3
at Evelyn’s wedding to Laura 260
character of 216
childhood of 11–15
contracts a sexual disease 266
and death of her father 264
and death of her mother 253
and death of Hubert Duggan 288
and death of Hugh 257, 258–9
and the Downing Street escapade 117, 123
edits Diversion (anthology for Yugoslav Relief
Society) 335–6
and the Evelyn-Jungman relationship 199
fictionalised by Waugh 238, 284, 299, 300,
302, 319–21, 327–8
fondness for drink 284, 285
friendship and correspondence with Evelyn
121, 153, 154–5, 169–70, 178, 188, 193, 216–17, 218, 220, 225, 236–7, 240–1, 243, 245–6, 248, 257, 258–9, 260, 261, 264, 272, 290
has affair with Hubert Duggan 252, 259, 267
and life at Madresfield 162–7, 174–7
and loss of her faith 329, 339
marriage of 267–8
portrait of 138–9
post-war life and death 334–40
reaction to Brideshead 298
relationship with Prince George 219, 220
and the Second World War 272, 275–6, 286–7
sees Evelyn’s play despite being unwell
179–80
suffers from depression and insomnia 243,
259, 338–9
supported financially by Evelyn 176
in Venice 193–4, 196
views on homosexual literature 315
Lygon, Mona (wife of Elmley) (1895–1989)
243–4, 250–1, 264, 265, 271, 318, 332, 340, 341
Lygon, Richard ‘Dickie’ (1916–70) 11, 13, 14, 141,
145, 149, 162, 177, 244, 262, 263, 264, 268, 332, 337, 341
Lygon, Sibell (1907–2005) 161, 179, 181, 184
affair with Beaverbrook 140, 212, 219, 265
affair with Bevan 219
and the affair of her father 136, 143
attends Circus party 115
captured on cine film 263
childhood of 11–15
comment on Bradford the butler 131
and death of her father 264
and death of Hugh 254–5
and the Downing Street escapade 117, 123
and the Evelyn-Jungman relationship 199
friendship and correspondence with Evelyn
169–70, 172–3
leaves Madresfield 265
and life at Madresfield 162–7, 174–7
marriage of 265–6
post-war life and death 340–1
and the Second World War 271
works as a journalist and in a hairdressing
salon 116, 149–50, 188–9, 201, 219
Lygon, William, 7th Earl Beauchamp ‘Boom’
(1872–1938)
arranges Elmley’s coming of age party 91–3
celebrated in stained glass, frescoes and
paintings at Madresfield 156–60
and death of his wife 252–3
and death of Hugh 254–7
and the Downing Street escapade 117
and exile in Australia 146–8, 149, 189–93,
198–9, 203–4, 217–18, 223
family background and description of 94–9
fictionalised by Waugh 151, 299, 300, 307,
314–15, 316, 318, 321, 322–4, 326, 330, 331–2
goes on a world tour 261–3
homosexual scandal 131–6, 137, 139–40
illness and death of 263–4
Lygon, William, 7th Earl Beauchamp – cont.
loss of friends 165–6
maintains contact with his family 164–5,
167–8, 181, 247
and marital separation and divorce 142–6
misses Elmley’s wedding 250–1
as patron of the Arts and Crafts style 156
removes Elmley from Oxford 51
returns to Madresfield from exile 261–4
takes up knitting and embroidery 262
travels to America 220–1
visits to the Continent 89–91, 130, 197–8,
220 –1, 236, 247–51
wealth and standing of 11–12, 13–14, 36, 88
Lygon, William, Lord Elmley (1903–79) 48, 153,
159, 163
and the affair of his father 136, 148, 150
at Oxford 51, 54, 56–7, 59, 64, 69, 71, 85n,
99
becomes 8th Earl Beauchamp 265
character of 244
childhood 11–15
coming of age party 88, 91–3, 103
and death of his father 263–4
and death of Hugh 181
education 16 –17, 36, 38
elected an MP 129, 161–2, 169–70
fictionalised by Waugh 299, 317–18, 324, 330,
331, 332
likened to an Austen character 184–5
meets and marries a Danish widow 243–4,
250–1
as peer of the realm 245
post-war life and death 340
and the Second World War 271, 276
MacDonald, Isabel 123
MacDonald, Ramsay 113, 143
MacDougal, Tommy 165
McGustie, Babe 72–3
McKenna, Stephen, An Affair of Honour 57
Mackenzie, Compton
Sinister Street 45, 304, 311–12
Thin Ice 315–16
Mackie, Dr 185
MacPherson, Aimée Semple 122
Madresfield Agricultural Society 97, 130
Madresfield Court (Worcestershire) 11–15, 40,
64, 72, 83, 86, 88, 91, 93, 95, 99, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 141, 143, 145, 153, 155–60, 164, 166, 172, 173, 174–7, 177, 183–6, 188, 202–3, 209, 213, 218, 222–4, 244, 248, 271, 308, 324–6, 328, 337, 341, 345
The Magazine 34
Magdalen College (Oxford) 56, 86
Malvern 152, 153, 166
Malvern Concert Club 72
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice 310
Manners, Diana see Cooper, Diana
Mannini, Tito 190
Margaret, Princess 271
Marina, Princess 220, 268
Marlborough, Duke of 238
Marlowe, Christopher, Doctor Faustus 39
Mary, Queen 138, 163
Mather, Father 206–7
Maugham, William Somerset 151, 306
Mells Manor (Somerset) 214, 215, 240
Merrill, George 132
Messel, Oliver 55, 114, 196
Mexico 264–5
MGM Studios 300, 305, 320, 327
MI51
Midsomer Norton (Somerset) 8
Mills, Florence 114, 138
Milnes-Gaskell, Charles 171
Milnes-Gaskell, Mary 171
Ministry of Information 1, 2
Mishima, Yukio, Confessions of a Mask 310
Mitchell, Julian, Another Country (play) 37
Mitford, Deborah ‘Debo’ 345
Mitford, Diana see Guinness, Diana
Mitford, Jessica 123
Mitford, Nancy 61, 111, 113, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121,
152, 171, 237, 239, 283, 297–8, 301–2, 317, 327, 334, 337, 338, 346–7
Molson, Hugh 29, 50
Moncrieff, C. K. Scott 79
Morocco 218–20
Morrison, Lady Rosalind 341
Mosley, Alexander 126
Mosley, Oswald 126, 211, 285
Murano (Venice) 196 –7
Mussolini, Benito 245
New College (Oxford) 6
New Reform Club (Oxford) 71
Newman Society 51<
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Newton Ferrers 242
Nicolson, Harold 131, 133, 190
Nijinsky, Vaslav 42
Noël, Gerard 93
Normandie (ship) 261
Norwich, John Julius 221, 272
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 331
O’Brien, Murrough 219
Ogilvie-Grant, Mark 112, 123
Oxford 28, 33, 36, 39, 43, 44–65, 66, 85–7, 90,
99, 103, 175, 256, 302, 304, 306, 307, 311, 316–17, 338–9, 349
Oxford Broom 52
Oxford and Cambridge Magazine 219
Oxford Labour Club 68
Oxford Times 57
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) 70
Pakenham, Frank (later Lord Longford) 128,
199, 272
Pakenham Hall (County Meath) 199
Palazzo Brandolini (Venice) 193–7
Pares, Richard 61, 62, 65, 69, 71, 74, 306, 338–9
Paris 103, 171
Paris Exhibition (1920) 99
Parsons, Bridget 196
Parsons, Michael, Earl of Rosse 196, 197
Partisan Review 270
Pataudi, Nawab of 198
Payne, Henry 156
Peglar, Miss (governess) 169
Pembroke College (Oxford) 47
Peters, A. D. 212
Philbrick the Flagellant (student at Balliol) 50,
107
Phillips, Major Peter 341
Piers Court (Stinchcombe, Cotswolds) 261, 264,
269, 271
Pistol Troop (children’s gang) 9
Pixton House (Dulverton, Somerset) 225, 240,
287, 288, 289
Plunket Greene, David 18, 55, 56, 57, 72–3, 73,
75–6, 79
Plunket Greene family 317
Plunket Greene, Gwen (nee Ponsonby) 72,
74–5, 78–9, 105, 127
Plunket Greene, Harry 72, 74
Plunket Greene, Olivia 73–4, 75–6, 77, 78, 79,
85, 101, 105, 109, 127, 128, 283–4, 308, 319
Plunket Greene, Richard 55, 72, 73, 75–6, 79, 81,
85, 86, 87, 100, 101, 150
Plunket Greene, Babe 113
Ponsonby, Arthur 78
Ponsonby, Elizabeth 113, 122
Ponsonby, Gwen see Plunket Greene, Gwen
Ponsonby, Matthew 78–9
Portofino 261
Pound, Ezra 43
Powell, Anthony 36, 38–9, 39, 42, 60, 61, 106,
114
A Dance to the Music of Time 39–40
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 100, 103
Preston, Kiki Whitney 138
Proll, Rosa 344
Proust, Marcel 42
Á la recherche du temps perdu 3
Punch magazine 116, 278–9
Pusey, Peter 70, 109
Quennell, Peter 51, 182, 306, 335
Quiller-Couch, Arthur ‘Q', ‘Alma Mater’ 45–6,
47, 64, 82, 312
Raban, Catherine see Waugh, Catherine
The Railway Club 56
Ranken, William 91, 132, 138–9, 159, 254
Rhoderick-Jones, Robin 137
Rice, Talbot see Abelson, Tamara (aka Talbot
Rice)
Riding Academy (Malvern) 152, 153–4, 171, 176,
180
Ritz Hotel (London) 126, 177, 178, 179, 185, 201,
211
Roberts, George 133, 145
Robeson, Paul 74
Rodd, Peter ‘Prodd’ 237, 239, 283
Roland family see Fleming family
Rome 89, 90, 104, 189–93, 245–6, 262, 293–4,
310, 325
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 130
Rosebery, Lord 341
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 105, 242
Rothermere, Lord 245
Rouff, Maggy 250
Rowley, Mrs Eleonore 341
Rowley, Michael 266, 271, 341
Rowse, A. L. 62
Roxburgh, J. F. 24, 25–8, 33, 281
Ruddigore (Gilbert & Sullivan) 85n
Rugby School 28, 54
Runciman, Walter 135
Ruskin, John 89, 90
The Stones of Venice 223–4
Rutland, Duke of 193
Sackville-West, Eddie 335
Sackville-West, Vita 131
Saighton Grange (Cheshire) 140, 181, 204
San Lazzaro (Venice) 194
Sassoon, Siegfried 190
Savile Club (London) 202–3
Sayre, Zelda 106
Schiwe, Viggo 243
Scott, Harold 67
Sebastian, Saint 309–10
Second World War 127, 270 –81, 286, 288, 291–6,
333
Selassie, Emperor Haile 127, 152, 200
Shaftesbury, Lady ‘Cuckoo’ 143
Shakespeare, William 7, 17, 319, 331
Shaw, George Bernard 180
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Adonais 159
Sherborne School (Dorset) 5, 6, 8, 16, 19, 21
Siddal, Lizzy 106
Silk, Bill 101
Simon, Sir John 252–3
Simpson, Mrs 222
Sitwell, Edith 42, 43, 48
Façade 49
Smith, Freddy see Birkenhead, 2nd Earl
Smyth, David (Beauchamp’s secretary) 247,
250 –1, 261, 262, 264, 332
South America 201–2, 203–9
Spitsbergen 226, 228, 256
Spreadeagle inn (Thame) 58–9, 63, 64
Squire, J. C. 107
Stanhope, Lady Mary 93, 94, 98
Stanmore, Lord 146
Stella Polaris (ship) 262
Stonyhurst school 180
Strachey, Julia 79, 101
Strachey, Lytton 126
Stratford-upon-Avon 81
Strindberg, August, Miss Julie 243
Sutcliffe, Herbert 198
Sutro, John 56, 69, 71, 76, 85, 255, 260–1, 263,
290
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 43, 48
Sydney 96 –7, 198–9
Sykes, Christopher 59–60, 61, 106, 185, 254, 255,
263, 268, 302, 303, 304, 305
Sykes, Sir Richard 196–7
The Tablet 211, 331
Talbot family 9–10
Talbot, Muriel 10
Tandy, Arthur 86
Tanner, Ralph 278–9
Tatler 92, 126, 268
Terry, Ellen 6, 7
Thesiger, Ernest 131–2, 255
Thomas, Major General Ivor 289
The Times 42, 145, 147, 201, 253, 256, 260, 267
Tito, General 292
Tom Brown’s Schooldays 20, 37
Trafford, Raymond de 189, 198, 263
Trinity College (Oxford) 56
Underhill House (Golders Green) 7–8, 62, 66,
67, 69, 173, 177, 189, 210
Urquhart, Mr ‘Sligger', Dean of Balliol 61,
68–70
The Vagabond Queen (film) 132
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Jane 242
Vaudeville Theatre (London) 179–80
Venice 89, 189, 190, 193–7, 248–9, 256, 262,
310
Victoria, Queen 94, 96
Voce, Bill 198
Vogue 212
Waddington, Mary King, Letters of a Diplomat’s
Wife 184
Wagner, Richard 193
Tristan and Isolde 249
Waldorf Astoria hotel (New York) 263
Wallace, Edgar 167
Walmer Castle (Kent) 11, 12, 88, 131, 136, 145
Walpole, Hugh 133
Warman, Mrs Anne 341
Warman, Francis Byrne 341
Watts, Eleanor 178
Waugh, Alexander ‘Alec’ (brother) (1898–1981)
5, 6, 8, 9, 31, 34, 50, 63, 67, 69, 70, 75, 104, 105, 106, 118, 128, 130, 150, 172, 276, 316, 349
The Loom of Youth 18–20
A Year to Remember 150, 151
Waugh, Dr Alexander ‘The Brute’ (grandfather)
(1840 –1906) 6<
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Waugh, Arthur (father) (1866–1943) 5, 6–7, 20,
67, 69, 118, 127, 179, 188, 201, 211, 220, 236, 242, 245, 286
Waugh, Auberon Alexander ‘Bron’ (son)
(1939–2001) 272–3, 348–9
Waugh, Catherine (nee Raban) (mother)
(1870 –1954) 6, 8, 70, 103, 105, 106, 118, 178, 188, 201, 220, 242
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St. John (1903–1966)
as an outsider 64, 86
at Oxford 44–56, 57–65
becomes a schoolmaster 77–81, 85–7, 101–2,
104–5
brief affair with Hazel Lavery 201
as a brilliant young author 122–5, 152
character and description of 29–30, 33, 51,
84–5, 117–18
and confirmation in Rome 191–2, 199
education 15–16, 21, 22–35
effect of Hubert Duggan’s death on 287–8
effect of Madresfield on 154–5, 161, 162, 164,
166–7, 170, 173, 174–7, 182–6
enjoys parties and nightclubs 67, 70–2,
75–6, 78–9, 86–7, 101, 103, 113–17, 118, 121
enrols in Captain Hance’s Riding Academy
153–4, 169
falls for and marries Laura Herbert 240–1,
251–2, 258, 259–61
family background and childhood 5–10
first marriage 105–6, 109–12, 118–21, 122, 125,
152, 215
flirtation with the cinema 67–70, 86, 177–8
as hard-drinking hedonist 53, 54–5, 57–9,
61 –2, 70–1, 72, 74, 75–6, 78, 85, 101, 188, 284, 285, 287
homosexual encounters 59–65
and idealisation of other families 9–10, 72–6
infatuation with ‘Baby’ Jungman 126, 167,
199, 201, 203, 215, 216
learns of Hugh Lygon’s death 257
and love of female friendship 121, 124–6, 164,
169, 216
and post-Oxford boredom 66–7, 78, 100
received into the Catholic Church 127–8,
152
recovers from plane crash 292–5
sits for his portrait 125
visits abroad 101, 103, 104, 111–12, 152, 187–8,
189–97, 199, 201, 203, 204–9, 218–20, 226–35, 245–6, 264–5
war-time service 1–2, 270–81, 284–5, 291–7
wins Hawthornden Prize for his biography
of Campion 247
Works
‘Anthony, who sought things that were
lost’ 52
‘The Balance’ (short story) 103–4
Black Mischief 152, 170, 180, 181–2, 183,
185 –6, 187, 199–200, 202, 210–11, 239, 246, 340
Brideshead Revisited see Brideshead
Revisited
Charles Ryder’s Schooldays 22, 24, 27, 30
Conversion (play) 32
Decline and Fall 33, 53, 59, 62, 75, 103, 106 –9, 110, 111, 122, 186
