Category Archives: Hampstead

Waugh Connections

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Times gossip columnist Patrick Kidd discusses Phiip Eade’s identification of models for Waugh characters in today’s “Diary”: …Lord Parakeet in Decline and Fall was based on Gavin Henderson, an exceedingly camp noble who, on becoming Lord Faringdon, opened a speech … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Preposterous Parson

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A book describing the career of Rev Basil Bourchier, the first vicar of St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb, has been written by the current vicar, Alan Walker. Evelyn Waugh’s family were parishioners at the church in his youth, and … Continue reading →

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Biography Reviewed in Waugh’s Old Neighborhoods

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade has been reviewed in the Camden Review, which is an arts and entertainment section carried in local North London papers, including the Camden New Journal and the Islington Tribune. The review … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh’s Hampstead days

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Ham(pstead) & High(gate) website features a Jan. 12th article by Adam Sonin on Evelyn Waugh’s Hampstead days.

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