by Philip Eade
SAS (Special Air Service); EW joins
Savoy Theatre, London
Scarlet Woman, The (film)
Scoop
Scott, Audrey see Lucas, Audrey
Scott, Harold
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott-King’s Modern Europe
Scott Moncrieff, C.K.
Second World War: outbreak; fall of France; Free French; Blitz; North African campaigns; battle of Crete; Dieppe raid; Allied invasion of Sicily D-Day; V-weapon attacks; Allied bombing of Germany; VE Day
Selsey, Sussex
Sezincote House, Gloucestershire
Shaw, Bobby
Shaw, George Bernard; Candida
Shawcross, Sir Hartley (later Baron Shawcross)
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Shepard, E.H.
Sherborne, Dorset
Sherborne School
Shirehampton, Somerset
Shoreham, Sussex
Sicily, Allied invasion
Sickert, Walter
Sidmouth, Devon
Sieveking, Lance
Silk, Bill
Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor)
Sitwell family
Skelton, Barbara
Smith, Lady Eleanor
Smith, George
Somerset, Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of
South Africa
Southend-on-Sea
Spain, EW visits
Spain, Nancy
Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
Spanish Place, London, St James’s Church
Spears, Sir Edward
Special Air Service see SAS
Special Service Brigade
Spectator, The (magazine)
Spitsbergen, EW visits
Squire, Sir John Collings
Stanley, Edward, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Stavordale, Henry, Lord (later 7th Earl of
Ilchester), 223
Stein, Gertrude
Stella Polaris (cruise ship)
Stern, G.B.
Stevenage
Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire
Stirling, Sir David
Stirling, William
Stoker, Bram
Ston Easton, Somerset
Stonyhurst College
Stowe School
Strachey, Julia
Strachey, Lytton
Strauss, Eric
Stravinsky, Igor
Strong, L.A.G.
Sudeley, Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 6th Baron (‘Bones’)
Suez Canal
Sunday Chronicle
Sunday Express
Sunday Times, The
Sutro, John
Swift, Jonathan
Swinburne, Algernon
Sword of Honour (trilogy); Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender
Sykes, Christopher; Evelyn Waugh
Sykes, Sir Richard
Symons, Arthur, Aubrey Beardsley
Syria
Tablet, The (journal)
Talbot, Anne
Talbot, Muriel
Talbot Rice, David
Talbot Rice, Tamara (née Abelson)
Tanganyika, Lake
Tangier
Tanner, Ralph
Tatler (magazine)
Tatton Park, Cheshire
Taunton, Somerset
Temple at Thatch, The
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron
Texas, University of
Thame, Oxfordshire, Spread Eagle Hotel
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Sir Ivor
Thompson, Edith
‘Three Vital Writers’ (lecture series)
Thwaite, Ann: Glimpses of the Wonderful; My Oxford
Tilbury, Essex
Time (magazine)
Times, The
Times Literary Supplement (TLS), The
Tito, Josip Broz; EW meets
Topusko, Croatia
Torquay, Devon
Tourist in Africa, A
Toye, Francis
Toynbee, Philip travel writing, EW’s
Tredegar, Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount
Tree, Iris
Trevor-Roper, Hugh (later Baron Dacre of Glanton)
Tring, Hertfordshire
Trinidad, EW visits
Tromsø
Tutankhamen discoveries
Udale-Smith, Mollie
Unconditional Surrender see Sword of Honour (trilogy)
Underhill, Father (priest)
Underhill, Hampstead (Waugh family home)
United States, EW visits
Urquhart, F.F. (‘Sligger’)
Varda, Dorothy
Vaudeville Theatre, London
Vaughan, Charles
Venice, EW visits
Verschoyle, Derek
Victoria, Queen
Victor’s (night club)
Vile Bodies; stage version
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Wakefield, Roger
Walston, Catherine
Warren, Edward Perry (Ned)
Warwick, Daisy, Countess of
Warwick Street, London, Church of the Assumption
Watkin, Father Aelred
Watts, Eleanor
Waugh, Alexander (‘the Great and Good’; EW’s great-great-grandfather)
Waugh, Alexander (‘the Brute’; EW’s grandfather)
Waugh, Alexander (Alec; EW’s brother): appearance character and sexuality; birth; early childhood; relations with parents; relations with EW; EW’s views on; prep school; at Sherborne; expulsion from school; publication of The Loom of Youth; views on EW as schoolboy; officer training; wartime military service; prisoner-of-war; first marriage; publishing career; literary earnings; reaction to EW’s first attempt at novel-writing; ending of first marriage; and EW’s student days at Oxford; post-divorce single life in London; and EW’s relationship with Olivia Plunket Greene; suggests secretarial post with Scott Moncrieff to EW; publication of EW’s short story ‘The Balance’; family holidays in South of France; and EW’s marriage to Evelyn Gardner; introduces EW to A.D. Peters; and EW’s divorce; and EW’s liaison with Audrey Lucas; on EW’s conversion to Roman Catholicism; marriage to Joan Chirnside; witness at EW’s annulment proceedings; Who’s Who entry, 201; and EW’s marriage to Laura Herbert; and Waugh family coat of arms; during Second World War; death of father; and EW’s trip to United States; separation from Joan; in New York; in Tangier; on EW’s libel win; and nephew Auberon’s marriage; fasting regime; and EW’s autobiography; The Coloured Countries; The Early Years of Alec Waugh; Hot Countries; Island in the Sun; The Loom of Youth; My Brother Evelyn; A Year to Remember
Waugh, Alexander (EW’s grandson); Fathers and Sons
Waugh, Alice (later Woolner)
Waugh, Alick (EW’s uncle)
Waugh, Andrew (EW’s nephew)
Waugh, Annie (née Morgan; EW’s grandmother)
Waugh, Arthur (EW’s father): family background; appearance and character; birth; childhood and early life; courtship and marriage; literary and publishing career; birth of sons; family life and children’s upbringing relations with Alec; relations with EW; EW’s views on; death of father and inheritance; construction of Underhill; and sons’ schooling; religious beliefs; fiftieth birthday; reaction to Alec’s expulsion from Sherborne; and publication of Alec’s first novel recalls encounter with masseuse; and Alec’s detention as prisoner-of-war; and EW’s friendship with Francis Crease; reaction to EW’s school play Conversion; and EW’s school friend Hugh Molson; and EW’s Oxford student days; birthday gifts for EW views on EW’s Rossetti biography; family holidays in South of France; and EW’s first marriage; and EW’s divorce; and EW’s liaison with Audrey Lucas; reaction to EW’s conversion to Roman Catholicism; writes autobiography; sells Underhill and moves to flat in Highgate; on EW’s return from Abyssinia; and EW’s marriage to Laura Herbert; and EW as director at Chapman & Hall; visits Piers Court; and sons’ wartime duties; in wartime London; and death of EW’s premature daughter; declining
health; death and funeral; Alfred Lord Tennyson; One Man’s Road; ‘Reticence in Literature’
Waugh, Auberon (Bron; EW’s son); birth and childhood; schooling; military service and accidental wounding; at Oxford; marriage and family; literary career; and father’s death; The Foxglove Saga; Will This Do?
Waugh, Catherine (Kate; née Raban; EW’s mother): family background; appearance and character; childhood and early life courtship and marriage; views on father-in-law; birth of sons; family life and children’s upbringing; EW’s views on; and children’s schooling; and EW’s religious beliefs war-work; and EW’s friendship with Francis Crease; and EW’s Oxford student days; family holidays in South of France; and EW’s first marriage; and EW’s divorce; reaction to EW’s conversion to Roman Catholicism; moves to flat in Highgate; and EW’s marriage to Laura Herbert; visits Piers Court; on wartime letting of Piers Court; and sons’ wartime duties; in wartime London; and death of EW’s premature daughter; death of husband; EW visits with son; death
Waugh, Connie (EW’s aunt)
Waugh, Edith (later Hunt)
Waugh, Elsie (EW’s aunt)
Waugh, (Arthur) Evelyn St John: family background; birth and christening; circumcision; early childhood; summer holidays in West Country; prep school; appendectomy operation; convalescence; confirmation and first Communion; at Lancing; contracts mumps; reads Alec’s first novel; first attempt at writing a novel; editorship of school magazine; school prizes; house captaincy; school play (Conversion); school clubs and societies; gains Oxford scholarship; at Oxford; vacations; contributions to university magazines; final exams; visits Dublin with Alastair Graham; leaves Oxford; begins writing novel (The Temple at Thatch); attends art school; twenty-first birthday; social life and carousing in London; production of silent film (The Scarlet Woman); prep school master in north Wales; at Plunket Greenes’ house party on Lundy; contemplates suicide; abandons The Temple at Thatch,; resigns Welsh teaching post job-hunting in London; further teaching job (at Aston Clinton); best man to Richard Plunket Greene; visits Paris with Bill Silk; travels to Scotland and France with Alastair Graham; publication of ‘The Balance’ and PRB: An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; twenty-third birthday; visits Alastair Graham in Greece; dismissed from Aston Clinton teaching post; considers becoming clergyman; teaching post in Notting Hill; publication of ‘A House of Gentlefolks’; first meets Evelyn Gardner (‘Shevelyn’); works briefly on Daily Express,; courtship of Shevelyn; family holidays in South of France; writing of Rossetti biography; learns cabinet-making; proposes to Shevelyn; engagement; publication of Rossetti biography; writing of Decline and Fall; wedding day; honeymoon; publication of Decline and Fall; early married life; Mediterranean cruise; writing of Vile Bodies; Shevelyn’s relationship with John Heygate and break-up of marriage; divorce; stays with Guinnesses in Paris; writing of Labels,; publication of Vile Bodies; godfather to Jonathan Guinness conversion to Roman Catholicism; stays with Longfords in Ireland; visits Africa for coronation of Haile Selassie; writing of Black Mischief; suffers food poisoning; publication of Remote People; trip to Riviera with Pixie Marix; visits Madresfield; travels to Rome for confirmation; visits Venice with Mary Lygon; publication of Black Mischief; at brother’s wedding to Joan Chirnside; in South America; writing of Ninety-Two Days; Hellenic cruise; first meets Laura Herbert; marriage annulment proceedings; proposes to Baby Jungman; thirtieth birthday; visits Morocco; writing of A Handful of Dust; publication of Ninety-Two Days; trip to Spitsbergen; publication of A Handful of Dust; writes biography of Edmund Campion; meets Laura again at Pixton; courtship of Laura; in Abyssinia as Daily Mail correspondent; writing of Waugh in Abyssinia; proposes to Laura; marriage annulment granted; engagement to Laura ; wins Hawthornden Prize for Campion biography; gains Who’s Who entry; returns to Abyssinia; in Assisi; death of Hugh Lygon; writing of Scoop; acquires Piers Court; wedding day; early married life; improvements at Piers Court; director at Chapman & Hall; birth of daughter Teresa; publication of Scoop,; visits and writes on Mexico; writing of Work Suspended; outbreak of war; letting of Piers Court; moves to Pixton; seeks military commission; birth of son Auberon; commission with Royal Marines; military life; as commanding officer; aborted Dakar mission; transfers to Commandos; stationed in Scotland; death of premature daughter; publication of Work Suspended; planned raid on Pantelleria; Layforce operations in North Africa; Bardia raid; operations in Crete; returns to England; writing of Put Out More Flags; rejoins Marines; appearance on The Brains Trust; transfers to ‘The Blues’; birth of daughter Margaret; thirty-ninth birthday; liaison officer with Special Services Brigade; hopes to join Allied invasion of Sicily death of father; leaves Brigade following disagreement; joins SAS; parachute training; death of Hubert Duggan; granted leave to write; writing of Brideshead Revisited; recalled from leave; birth of daughter Harriet; rejoins SAS; mission to Yugoslavia; report on ‘Church and State in Liberated Croatia’; audience with Pius XII; returns to England; publication of Brideshead Revisited; reaction to 1945 general election; stays with Randolph Churchill at Ickleford; returns to Piers Court after wartime letting; writing of Helena; observer at Nuremberg trials; visits Spain for centenary of Francisco de Vitoria; birth of son James; visits United States for Brideshead film treatment discussions; contemplates moving to Ireland; writing and publication of The Loved One; further visits to United States; birth of son Septimus; publication of Helena; family life at Piers Court; tour of Holy Land with Christopher Sykes; writing and publication of Men at Arms; pilgrimage to Goa; publication of Love Among the Ruins; fiftieth birthday; weight gain and declining health; BBC radio interviews; death of Duff Cooper; bromide-induced mental breakdown on voyage to Ceylon; death of mother; writing and publication of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold; sells Piers Court and moves to Combe Florey; wins libel damages; writes biography of Ronald Knox; visits Actons in Rhodesia; son wounded during military service; tour of Central and East Africa and writing of A Tourist in Africa; publication of Knox biography; trips to Venice, Monte Carlo Athens and Rome; appearance on Face to Face; financial worries; writing of Unconditional Surrender; marriages of daughter Teresa and son Auberon; writing of first volume of autobiography; publication of Unconditional Surrender; returns to Guiana and Caribbean; marriage of daughter Margaret; birth of grandchildren; trip to Menton with Laura; obituary of Pope John XXIII; visits health farm; sixtieth birthday; publication of autobiography; dental problems; last months; attends Easter Sunday Mass; death
Character & characteristics: appearance; art collecting; artistic interests and talents; bravery; clubs; combativeness; compartmentalisation; cruelty; dress sense drinking; drug-taking; exhibitionism and theatricality; eyesight; fastidiousness; fear of failure; generosity with literary advice; gregariousness; imagination; independent mindedness; insomnia; misanthropy mischievousness; motorcycle-riding; moustache/beard; nicknames and noms de plume nostalgia; organisational ability; parenting; pessimism; private vocabulary; religious beliefs; riding and hunting rudeness; sexuality; smoking; speaking voice; temper and rages; theatrical interests; vulnerability; wit and humour
Relations with: Harold Acton; Cecil Beaton; Penelope Betjeman; John Betjeman; his brother Alec; Dudley Carew; Cyril Connolly; Diana Cooper; Francis Crease; his daughter Margaret; Tom Driberg; Aubrey Ensor; his father; Ann Fleming; Evelyn Gardner; Joyce Gill; Alastair Graham; Graham Greene; Terence Greenidge; Diana Guinness; Laura Herbert; Luned Jacobs; Baby Jungman; Audrey Lucas; Hugh Lygon Clare Mackenzie; Pixie Marix; Nancy Mitford; Hugh Molson; his mother; Richard Pares; Olivia Plunket Greene; J.F. Roxburgh; his son Auberon
Views on: Americans; architecture; biographers; his brother Alec; capital punishment; children; Christmas; Communism; drinking; his family background; his father; foreign travel; Edmund Gosse; grammar and prose style homosexuality; journalism; Lancing College; his mother; music; his name; Norway and Norwegians; politics; race; sex; social class; Underhill (childhood family home); the wireless women’s suffrage
Writings: see ‘The American Epoch in
the Catholic Church’; ‘Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost’; ‘The Balance’; Basil Seal Rides Again; ‘Bella Fleace Gave a Party’; Black Mischief; Brideshead Revisited; Charles Ryder’s Schooldays; ‘Church and State in Liberated Croatia’; ‘Conspiracy to Murder’; Conversion; ‘Cruise’; Decline and Fall; Edmund Campion; ‘Edward of Unique Achievement’; ‘An Englishman’s Home’; A Handful of Dust; Helena; The Holy Places; ‘A House of Gentlefolks’; Labels; The Life of Ronald Knox; A Little Learning; Love Among the Ruins; The Loved One; ‘Lovelies from America’; ‘The Man Who Liked Dickens’; Mr Loveday’s Little Outing; ‘Multa Pecunia’; ‘My Escape from Mayfair’; Ninety-Two Days; ‘On Guard’; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold; ‘Portrait of Young Man With Career’; PRB: An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847–54; Put Out More Flags; Remote People; Robbery Under Law; Rossetti: His Life and Works; ‘St Helena Empress’; The Scarlet Womanb; Scoop; Scott-King’s Modern Europe; Sword of Honour; The Temple at Thatch; ‘Three Vital Writers’; A Tourist in Africa; Vile Bodies; Waugh in Abyssinia; When the Going Was Good; Work Suspended; ‘The World to Come’
Waugh, Fanny (later Hunt)
Waugh, George (EW’s great-great-uncle)
Waugh, Harriet (EW’s daughter)
Waugh, James (EW’s great-grandfather)
Waugh, James (EW’s son)
Waugh, Joan (née Chirnside; EW’s sister-in-law)
Waugh, Kate see Waugh, Catherine
Waugh, Laura (née Herbert; EW’s second wife): family background; appearance and character; childhood and early life; Catholicism; EW first meets; EW’s courtship; EW’s proposal; engagement; purchase of Piers Court; wedding day; early married life; birth of daughter Teresa; visits Mexico with EW; wartime letting of Piers Court; family moves to Pixton; birth of son Auberon; wartime life at Pixton; EW’s correspondence with during military service; third pregnancy and death of child; visits EW in Edinburgh; birth of daughter Margaret; death of father-in-law; and EW’s leave to write Brideshead Revisited; birth of daughter Harriet; returns to Piers Court after wartime letting; birth of son James; visits United States with EW; birth of son Septimus; family life at Piers Court; EW writes to from India; and EW’s mental breakdown during voyage to Ceylon; moves to Combe Florey; Devon holiday with EW and Ronald Knox; life at Combe Florey; flies to Cyprus following Auberon’s wounding; trip to Venice and Monte Carlo with EW; and Auberon’s marriage; trip to Menton with EW; at Wiveliscombe Easter Sunday Mass