A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely

Posted on January 27, 2012 by A. Vickery

Evelyn Waugh appears in the recently released list of people who have declined honours (as he would have spelt it). He refused the offer of a CBE in 1959. Allan Massie's blog post in The Telegraph provides some details and has a link to the complete list.

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