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Lycett Green, Endellion (JB’s granddaughter)
Lycett Green, Rupert (Candida’s husband)
Lynam, A.E. (‘Hum’)
Lynam, Audrey
Lynam, Charles Cotterill (‘Skipper’)
Lynam, Joe
Lynam, May
Lyons, Eric
M.
Macartney, Sir Mervyn: edits Architectural Review
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose
McCall, Margaret
MacDonald, Ramsay
Machen, Arthur; The Secret Glory
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton)
MacNeice, Louis: at Marlborough; C.S. Lewis dislikes; poetic style
Maffey, Sir John (later 1st Baron Rugby)
Magdalen College, Oxford
Mallalieu, J.P.W. (Per)
Margaret, Princess: visits JB; Elizabeth Cavendish as Lady-in-Waiting to; visits Armstrong-Jones in Rotherhithe Street; engagement and marriage to Armstrong-Jones; presents Duff Cooper prize to JB; as Chancellor of Keele University; JB’s attitude to; churchgoing
Marlborough College: alumni; JB attends; JB makes TV film on
Marshall, Sir John
Martin, Peter and Dorothy
Martyn, Edward
Mary, Queen of George V
Masefield, John
Mathew, David, Archbishop of Apamea
Mathew, Gervase
Mauberley, Hugh Selwyn
Mead, the see Wantage (the Mead)
Menzies, Jill (‘Freckly Jill’): as JB’s secretary; on JB’s attachment to Elizabeth Cavendish
Messel, Oliver
Messel, Rudolf
Metroland (TV film)
Miller, Max
Mirzoeff, Edward
Mitford, Nancy: JB’s admiration for; and JB’s politics; and JB’s Admiralty post in war; letter from Waugh on JB’s beliefs; Christmas Pudding
Mitford, Pamela
Mitford, Thomas
Mitford, Unity Valkyrie
modernism: in poetry; in architecture
Moor View (house), Edensor, Derbyshire
Moore, Elizabeth
Moore, George: Hail and Farewell
Moore, Temple
Mormons: Paul Betjeman joins
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Morrice, Rev. R.W.
Morris, May
Morton, H.V.: In the Footsteps of the Master
Mosley, Alexander
Mosley, Diana, Lady (née Mitford; then Guinness): meets JB; JB corresponds with; engagement and marriage to Bryan Guinness; at Biddesden; on JB’s relations with sister Pamela; accompanies sister Unity to Germany; leaves Guinness for Mosley; admires JB’s genius; and Archie (teddy bear); JB’s relations with; visits JB at Farnborough; invites JB to Paris
Mosley, Max
Mosley, Sir Oswald: JB corresponds with; Diana Guinness meets and marries; politics; visits JB at Farnborough; attitude to adultery
Moti (horse)
Mottistone, Henry John Alexander Seely, 2nd Baron (Jack)
Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet Louis, 1st Earl
Mowl, Timothy: Stylistic Cold Wars
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Murdoch, (Dame) Iris
Murray, John: publishes JB
N.
Naipaul, Sir Vidia S.: The Enigma of Arrival
Nehru, Jawaharlal (Pandit)
New House, Cusop, near Hay-on-Wye (Penelope’s cottage)
Nicolson, (Sir) Harold
Noel, Rev. Conrad
Norton, William
Nymans (house), Sussex
O.
Oakley, Joan and Roland
Oaksey, John Laurence, 2nd Baron
Oaksey, Victoria, Lady (née Dennistoun; ‘Tory’)
Observer Corps: JB serves in
Olivier, Laurence (later Baron)
Osborne, John: friendship with JB; religious seriousness; Inadmissible Evidence; Look Back in Anger
Oxford: in JB’s verse; JB’s affection for; see also Dragon School; Oxford University
Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee
Oxford Movement
Oxford Preservation Trust
Oxford University: JB attends; post-First World War character
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS)
P.
Paget, Paul
Pakenham, Frank see Longford, 7th Earl of
Pakenham, Lady Mary
Parker, Jim: sets JB poems to music
Passion for Churches, A (TV film)
Pater, Walter
Peers, Charles
Penning-Rowsell, Edmund
Pepler, Father Conrad
Perry, Lionel
Peterson, Karl
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus
Phipps, Simon, Bishop of Lincoln
Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire
Pink ’Un, The (Admiralty publication)
Piper, Eileen (née Holding)
Piper, John: background and career; friendship with JB; collaborates with JB on Shell Guides; writes for Architectural Review; friendship with Lancasters; baptised by Harton; church visiting; illustrates Collins Guide to English Parish Churches; friendship with Kenneth Clark; illustrates English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape; religious beliefs; and JB’s attachment to Patrick Cullinan; and JB’s campaign for knighthood for Comper; JB stays with; on corrupting effect of TV on JB and Kenneth Clark; Ingrams writes on; with JB in old age
Piper, Myfanwy (née Evans): JB’s poems on; marriage; background; JB’s friendship with; baptised by Harton; urges JB to fulfil talent; on Lancasters; and JB’s absence in Ireland; religious beliefs; with JB in old age
Plath, Sylvia
Plomley, Roy
Plunkett, Sir Horace: JB works for as secretary; and JB’s Quakerism
Port Quin, Cornwall
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Anthony: at Oxford; on Bowra; on JB’s social ambitions; on Waugh-JB friendship; relations with JB; writes to JB; on Waugh as sadist; aspires to house with drive; Julian Jebb visits; on JB’s ‘whim of iron’; A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Lady Violet
Prawls (house), near Tenterden, Kent
Pressdram Limited (company)
Priestley, Joseph
Prince, Joan (‘The Mistress’)
Private Eye (magazine)
Pryce-Jones, Alan (‘Bog’): at Oxford; on JB’s father’s funeral; army service; religious conversions; on cruise to Copenhagen; Elizabeth Cavendish proposes marriage to; friendship with JB; engages Pevsner to write for Times Literary Supplement; on death of friends; The Bonus of Laughter
Pryce-Jones, Poppy
public schools
Purey-Cust, Peggy
Pusey House, Oxford
Pym family
Q.
Quakers (Society of Friends): JB’s membership
Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of
Quennell, (Sir) Peter: and Bowra; on JB at Architectural Review; Randolph Churchill introduces to White’s Club; stays at Uffington
R.
Radnor Walk, Chelsea
Rainbird, George (publisher)
Ramsey, Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury
Rawlings, Margaret
Reade, Charles; The Cloister and the Hearth
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Richards, Sir James M.
Richards, Peggy (née Angus)
Robinson, John, Bishop of Woolwich: Honest to God
Rome: Berners’s house in
Ross, Jennifer
Rosse, Anne, Countess of (formerly Armstrong-Jones)
Rosse, Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rotherhithe Street, London
Rowse, A.L.
Royal Fine Art Commission: JB serves on
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Rugby, 1st Baron see Maffey, Sir John
Ruskin, John
Russell, Camilla see Sykes, Camilla
&nb
sp; Russell, George William (‘A.E.’)
Russell, Sir John
S.
St Aloysius Church, Oxford
St Bartholomew’s hospital, London: JB’s visiting at
St Cyprian the Martyr church, London
St Endellion’s church, Cornwall
St Enodoc’s Church, Cornwall
St Katherine Coleman church
St Michael’s College, Tenbury, Worcestershire
St Peter’s church, Vauxhall
St Saviour’s church, Aberdeen Park, London
Salisbury, Alice, Marchioness of
Sambourne, Linley
Sambourne, Roy
Second World War: JB’s employment in
Sedding, J.D.
Seely & Paget (architects)
Seymour, Laura
Sezincote (house), Gloucestershire
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 9th Earl of
Shakespeare, Jack
Shakespeare, William: JB dislikes
Shand, P[hilip] Morton
Shell Guides: published by Faber; JB edits; Piper collaborates with JB on; JB rewrites Cornwall volume; Rainbird appropriates title
Shell-Mex BP Company
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Simon, Sir John
Singh, Paddy
Smyth-Piggot, Rev. John Hugh
Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of: life in London; engagement and marriage to Princess Margaret
Sparrow, John: at Oxford; checks JB’s poetry; remembers Basil Dufferin; friendship with JB; recognises Penelope’s gifts
Spender (Sir) Stephen
Spenser, Edmund
Stamp, Gavin
Staunton Harold church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Stedall, Jonathan
Steele, Rev. John Durno
Steele, Tommy
Steinbrecher, Paula
Stephens, George
Stock, Revd Victor
Stockwood, Mervyn, Bishop of Southwark
Stokes, Phoebe and Alan
Stone, Rev. Dr Darwell
Stonor, Oliver
Stopes, Marie
Strachey, Lytton
Strickland, General Sir Peter
Stuart, Simon
Summer Fields school, Oxford
Summerson, Sir John: on bombing of London; and Comper’s knighthood
Sutherland, Graham
Sutton, Randolph
Sykes, Camilla (née Russell): JB’s attachment to; JB wishes to design cover for Mount Zion
Sykes, Christopher
Symons, Julian
Synnott, Pierce
T.
Tasmania
Taylor, Geoffrey
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: on biography; In Memoriam
Thomas, Lynam
Thomas, M. Wynn
Thomas, Peggy
Thomas, R.S.; ‘Judgement Day’; The Stones of the Field
Thompson, Rev. J.M.
Thorold, Rev. Henry: Lincolnshire (Shell Guide)
Thorpe House (school), Gerrard’s Cross
Time and Tide: JB as literary adviser for
Tower House, Kensington
Townsend, Group Captain Peter
Tracy, Honor
Travers, Martin
Travers, Sally
Trebetherick, Cornwall; JB buys Treen (house)
Tree, Lady Anne
Truro Cathedral
Tulira, County Galway
Turgenev, Ivan
Tynan, Katharine
U.
Uffington, Berkshire: Betjemans live in; Betjemans leave; see also Garrard’s Farm
United States: JB in
V.
Victorian Society: founded
Villiers-Stuart, Emily (formerly Lady Hemphill)
Villiers-Stuart, Ion
Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley
W.
Wain, John
Walsham, John and Biddy
Wantage convent (Community of St Mary the Virgin)
Wantage (the Mead): Betjemans move to; JB’s life in; King Alfred’s Kitchen (bookshop/café); financial upkeep; Betjemans leave (1972)
Warren, Sir Herbert
Watson, Ronald
Waugh, Auberon
Waugh, Evelyn: and Bowra; relations with and view of JB; background; and Bryan Guinness; supposed affair with Penelope; wartime service; and JB’s move to Old Rectory, Farnborough; political views; on Betjeman children’s accents; and Penelope’s conversion to Roman Catholicism; attacks JB’s religious beliefs; depicts Penelope as Empress Helena; JB praises; Penelope asks to discontinue religious letters to JB; home at Combe Florey; JB gives Burges washstand to; mental disturbance; JB conciliates; love of grandeur; Decline and Fall; Helena; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold; Sword of Honour (trilogy)
Waugh, Teresa
Weekend Telegraph: JB writes for
Weinstock, Arnold (later Baron)
Wells, John
West Dean Park, Sussex
Westminster Abbey: in JB play; JB’s memorial service in
Wheeler, John
Wheeler, Peter
Where on Earth? (TV programme)
Whistler, Rex
White, Terence de Vere
White, William
Wicklow, 8th Earl of see Clonmore, William Forward-Howard, Baron
Wilde, Oscar
Willesden Churchyard
Williams, Charles
Williams, Harry; True Resurrection; The True Wilderness
Wilson, Mary, Lady
Wing, Buckinghamshire: proposed airport
Wintringham, Margaret
Wood, Christopher
Woodyer, Henry
Woolf, Leonard
Woolston, Katherine
Wordsworth, Andrew
Wright, Nancy
Wright, Ronald Hughes: friendship with JB; becomes Roman Catholic
Y.
Yeats, William Butler: poetic quality; on Ireland; JB meets; (ed.) Oxford Book of Modern Verse
Yorke, Henry (Henry Green)
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