Mad World (60 page)

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

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

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