The death earlier this week of writer and journalist David Pryce-Jones has been announced in the Peerage News. He is best known to our readers as the editor of the 1973 collection Evelyn Waugh and His World. This is noted prominently in the obituary posted today in the Peerage News and attached below:
David Pryce-Jones, FRSL, died 17 November, 2025, aged 89. He was a conservative author, historian and political commentator, a cousin of Helena Bonham-Carter, and with Rothschild family connections.
He was born in Vienna, 15 February, 1936, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Payan Pryce-Jones (1908-2000), by his first wife, Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer (1914-1953), a daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (1876-1929), a French-born banker, and great-granddaughter of Baron Max Springer.
David’s father was a book critic, writer, journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was notably editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1948 to 1959, descended from the Dawnay family.
David Pryce-Jones wrote a biography, Evelyn Waugh and His World (1973). It was rather notorious for digging up conflict among the married Mitford siblings, with Pamela accusing Jessica of revealing private correspondence concerning their sister the Duchess of Devonshire. The 1976 biography Unity Mitford: A Quest followed, despite alleged efforts by some of Unity Mitford’s sisters to prevent Pryce-Jones from doing his research and publishing the book.
David Pryce-Jones married 29 July, 1959, the Hon Clarissa Sabina Caccia (born 26 May, 1939), elder daughter of the Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ (1905-1990), and his wife the former Anne Catherine Barstow (who died 15 May, 2005), by whom he had issue, a son, Adam, and three daughters, Jessica, Candida and Sonia.
