Auberon Waugh
(1939-2001), Journalist and author; son of Evelyn WaughAuberon Alexander Waugh
Sitter in 18 portraits
The eldest son of the novelist and right-wing Catholic, Evelyn Waugh, he was educated at Downside, turned down a scholarship to Oxford, and went into the Royal Horse Guards. He served in Cyprus, and was invalided out after an accident which permanently damaged his lungs. He wrote five novels, but it was as a writer on the Spectator in the 1960s, in his 'Diary' in Private Eye (1972-86), and his column in the Daily Telegraph, that he established a reputation for verbal caricature that was fantastical, anti-modernist and politically eccentric. He was also a writer on wine and chess. He was the founder of the Literary Review, and its editor-in-chief when he died.
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 21 April 1983
NPG P1933
by Mark Gerson
cibachrome print from original transparency, March 1959
NPG x88242
Evelyn Waugh with his family and two Italian servants
by Mark Gerson
cibachrome print from original transparency, March 1959
NPG x88245
by Yevonde
black and white reprint on card mount, 1960s
NPG x131752
Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow); Auberon Waugh
by Tom Blau, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide print, 1966
NPG x135963
by Eric Hands
modern bromide print from original negative, 1979
NPG x133198
by Eric Hands
modern contact sheet from original negative, 1979
NPG x133201
Related People
- (Maria) Teresa D'Arms (née Waugh) (sister)
- Margaret ('Meg') Fitzherbert (née Waugh) (sister)
- Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow) (wife)
- Alexander Raban ('Alec') Waugh (uncle)
- Evelyn Waugh (father)
- Harriet Mary ('Hatty') Waugh (sister)
- James Waugh (brother)
- Laura Waugh (née Herbert) (mother)
- Septimus Waugh (brother)
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