Mad World (59 page)

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

London 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

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,