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Hugh Lygon. 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, Lygon was a close friend of the Waugh while at Oxford.
- Hugh Patrick Lygon, November 2, 1904
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15 mar 2010 · Waugh and Brideshead | Vanity Fair. From the Magazine. April 2010 Issue. Waugh and Brideshead. How much of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited was based on his love for the beautiful,...
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20 giu 2013 · Evelyn Waugh met Hugh Lygon at Oxford. Waugh may have had an affair with Hugh; he certainly fell in love with him. Through the charming, handsome Hugh, he later became friends with two of the Lygon sisters, Mary and Dorothy, nicknamed Maimie and Coote, as well as their father, the seventh Earl Beauchamp (nicknamed “Boom”), who ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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, Lygon was a close ...
Hugh Lygon (The Hon Hugh Patrick Lygon, 1904–1936) was the younger son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, He was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford . He was a friend of Evelyn Waugh at Oxford ( A L Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club.
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.
Among Waugh's growing circle of friends were Diana Guinness and Bryan Guinness (dedicatees of Vile Bodies), Lady Diana Cooper and her husband Duff Cooper, Nancy Mitford who was originally a friend of Evelyn Gardner's, and the Lygon sisters. Waugh had known Hugh Patrick Lygon at Oxford; now he was introduced to the girls and their ...
