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- Evelyn Waugh met Hugh Lygon at Oxford. Waugh may have had an affair with Hugh; he certainly fell in love with him.
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Mar 15, 2010 · As noted, Waugh was already close to Hugh, and at Oxford he had also known Elmley, the eldest Lygon son. But he had never met the sisters and had never been to Madresfield.
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Jun 20, 2013 · Evelyn Waugh met Hugh Lygon at Oxford. Waugh may have had an affair with Hugh; he certainly fell in love with him.
Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and, though often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Waugh told the Lygon family that this was not the case.
He’d known Hugh Lygon and his older brother, known as Lord Elmley, at Oxford, the latter playing a part in the Waugh/Greenidge film The Scarlet Woman. But Evelyn's increasing lionisation as an author meant that he’d come to know three of the four Lygon sisters as well.
But it sets out to concentrate on how all these arose from, and played into, Waugh’s infatuated friendship with the Lygon family: from a probable romance at Oxford with the second son, Hugh;...
Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
In the summer of 1934, Evelyn joined Hugh Lygon (brother of the three Madresfield sisters) on a trip to Norway. This only lasted a month, resulting in a short memoir ('Fiasco in the Arctic') rather than two books, so Waugh took on the biography of Edmund Campion , a sixteenth Century Jesuit, in part to underline his Catholic credentials to ...
