Mad World (58 page)

Anne, Princess 341

Armstrong, William 40, 255

Armstrong-Jones, Anne 196

Arnold House prep school (Denbighshire) 75, 76, 77–81, 107

Arnold, Thomas 20, 75

Ashbee, C. R. 132–3, 156

Asquith, Herbert 135

Asquith, Katherine 214–15, 219, 220, 240, 246, 260

Assisi 90

Aston Clinton (Buckinghamshire) 81, 85, 100–1, 102, 104–5

Athens 104

Auden, W. H. 75, 283

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice
184

Sense and Sensibility
184–5, 318

Australian Sporting Club 198

Bakst, Leon 41

Baldwin, Arthur ‘Bloggs’ 165–6, 169, 172, 174, 177, 179, 180, 202, 349

Baldwin, Lady 166

Baldwin, Oliver 129, 166

Baldwin, Stanley 117, 129, 140, 143, 146, 147, 166, 168

Balfour, Patrick (later Lord Kinross) ‘Mr

Gossip’ 63, 87, 116, 122, 149, 150, 151, 172, 174, 246, 255, 263

Society Racket
116

Balliol College (Oxford) 61, 71, 226

Banks, Mr 75, 77

Barford House (Warwickshire) 62, 81

Baring, Poppy 138

Bartleet, Robert 165, 175, 220, 255

Bateson (Oxford University ‘scout') 44

Bath, Lord 238

Beaton, Cecil 16, 107, 193, 196, 209

Beaton, Reggie 216

Beauchamp, 7th Earl
see
Lygon, William, 7th

Earl Beauchamp

Beauchamp, Countess
see
Lygon, Lady Lettice

Mary (nee Grosvenor)

Beaverbrook, Lord 92, 140, 162, 201, 212, 255, 265

Beerbohm, Max,
Zuleika Dobson
45

Bell
newspaper 330

Belton House 222

Berlin, Isaiah 60

Bernays, Robert 133, 247–8

Berners, Lord 175, 189–90, 212, 225, 227, 261–2, 335, 343

The Girls of Radcliff Hall
344

Betjeman, John 75, 77, 106, 128, 307

Summoned by Bells
34

Bevan, Aneurin ‘Nye’ 219

Binyon, Laurence 253

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