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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

 

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