- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Tag Archives: CBE
Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
Comments Off on Waugh and the Honours List
A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged 1959, Allan Massie, CBE, honors, honours, Telegraph
Comments Off on A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely
