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Category Archives: Locations
Roundup: Public Schools, Pronunciation and Epigraphs
–The Daily Telegraph has an essay by Rupert Christiansen reviewing the English obsession with Public Schools. This begins with a consideration of several novels, films and stage plays that center on the miserable lives suffered by both students and teachers … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Rev Sydney Smith, The Literary Hub
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Memoir of Combe Florey
Sophia Waugh, Auberon’s daughter and Evelyn’s grand daughter, has written a bittersweet memoir of Combe Florey House on the occasion of its sale. This appears in a recent issue of the Catholic Herald. Here are some excerpts: …My grandfather bought … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Cathlolic Herald, Sophia Waugh
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Combe Florey House (More)
Alexander Waugh has kindly confirmed the following with respect to the Waugh Family graves next to Combe Florey House: The wall has now been fixed by family effort and EW’s grave is now approached up some steps from the church … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Combe Florey, Waugh Family
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Oldie Digs up Grave Problems at Combe Florey
The Oldie magazine in response to recent stories in the national press about the sale of Combe Florey House has republished an article from 2016 by Teresa Waugh, Auberon’s widow and former owner-occupant of the house. This relates to the … Continue reading
Posted in Combe Florey, Newspapers, Waugh Family
Tagged Teresa Waugh, The Oldie
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Earth Day Roundup
–Several other papers have run stories about the sale of Combe Florey House. The most extensive photographic displays are in the Daily Mail and Country Life which also have brief discussions of the Waugh family’s associations with the house. The … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Combe Florey, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Cherwell, Evening Standard, Literary Hub, Nancy Mitford, Somerset County Gazette, The Spectator, theduran.com
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Annual Waugh Lecture (More)
As noted in a previous post, the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture was delivered at Lancing College earlier this week. The talk was given by Jeremy Tomlinson, a former master of the house where Waugh lived as a student. It was … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Diaries, Helena, Lancing, Lectures
Tagged Jeremy Tomlinson
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Annual Waugh Lecture: A Housemaster’s Report
Lancing College has announced the details of this year’s annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture to be held by Zoom Webinar on Thursday, 22 April at 1930-2030 London time: 2021 marks the centenary of Evelyn Waugh leaving Lancing and 50 years since tonight’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Lancing, Lectures
Tagged Jeremy Tomlinson
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Combe Florey Sale Coincides with Waugh Anniversary
In an article in today’s Times newspaper, Patrick Kidd writes: On Easter morning 55 years ago tomorrow [Saturday, 10 April 2021] Evelyn Waugh said his last Deo gratias. After assisting his priest at a Latin mass in the Somerset town … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Combe Florey, Letters, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Waugh Family
Tagged Patrick Kidd, Strutt & Parker, The Times, University of Texas
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117th Anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s Birthday
On this 117th anniversary of Waugh’s birthday, we look back 80 years to see how he celebrated the occasion on 28 October 1940. This was nearly a year after he had joined the Royal Marines. He had arrived back from … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Diaries, Pixton, World War II
Tagged Birthdays
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“92 Days” Complete Works Edition Announced
The Oxford University Press has announced the UK publication date for its definitive edition of Waugh’s 1934 travel book Ninety-Two Days. This will appear in the UK on 25 February 2021, the same UK publication date as the previously-announced A … Continue reading
