A house in Crooms Hill, Greenwich marks one of Waugh ’ s residences ; 53 Woodlands Villas ( today Vanbrugh Park ) in the nearby Blackheath Standard area was another.

Other towns and cities began to follow Liverpool ’ s example, leading in 1884 to the founding of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( London SPCC ) by Lord Shaftesbury, Reverend Edward Rudolf and Reverend Benjamin Waugh.

A 1924 entry in Evelyn Waugh ’ s diary states that an English High Court judge presiding in a sodomy case sought advice on sentencing from Lord Birkenhead.

Waugh, by contrast, was a camp homosexual exorcist priest, employed by the future Vatican City, with medals in flower-arranging and Olympic high-diving, a bodybuilder ’ s physique and a cutting line in humour – and his main motivation was simply to do “ Anything to offset the dreadful ennui of it all !” Smith's initial proposal described Waugh as a cross between Charles Bronson and Noël Coward ; Phillips visualised him as a cross between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Terry-Thomas.

In the end, it would be seven years between Waugh ’ s first and second appearance, and Siku ’ s radical style was not to the tastes of many readers.

Smith ’ s narrative style, which is fragmentary and often reminiscent of William S. Burroughs or Iain Sinclair, contains many short allusions to Waugh ’ s background and story, from which a sketchy narrative can be built up.

The protagonist wonders if he is like Tithonus in Book 4, Chapter 1, of Alec Waugh ( brother of Evelyn Waugh )' s novel, The Loom of Youth.

Between 1988 and 1990 he wrote the Daily Telegraph ` s The Way of the World column ( a satirical column originated by Michael Wharton ), and in 1990 swapped places with Auberon Waugh to become a weekly columnist on The Sunday Telegraph, where he has remained to this day.

* Decline and Fall, a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928 makes thinly disguised references to Dartmoor Prison.

* Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh ( 1903 – 66 ) satirised the " bright young things " of the 1920s and 1930s, notably in A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ), and Decline and Fall ( 1928 ), while Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) has a theological basis, setting out to examine the effect of divine grace on its main characters.

Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928.

Evelyn Waugh, Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton all spoke to the Newman ; it was while attending a talk by Chesterton that Waugh first met Harold Acton, to whom he would later dedicate Decline and Fall.

At this stage of his career, Waugh bore a heavy workload as a bowler although he was ostensibly selected for his batting.

Alec Waugh, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring as comparison ; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter ( 1931 ), rather than letting it poison his life.

Some names associated with this assemblage are Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Nancy Mitford, A. E.

Waugh himself wrote, " The characters in my novels often wrongly identified with Harold Acton were to a great extent drawn from Brian Howard ".

In July Harold acted as Best Man at the wedding of Evelyn Waugh to the Honourable Evelyn Gardner.

Waugh strongly criticised Harold Wilson's government, especially the foreign secretary Michael Stewart, for colluding in the use of mass starvation as a political weapon.

Alumni include Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, Michael Foot, Sylvia Plath, Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Richard Ingrams, David Dimbleby, Terry Jones, George Osborne and Nigella Lawson.

Early interview subjects include W. H. Auden, John Berryman, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, William S. Burroughs, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Isak Dinesen, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Harold Pinter, Irwin Shaw, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, E. B.

He was one of the Hypocrites group that included Harold Acton, Lord David Cecil, L. P. Hartley and Evelyn Waugh.

But Waugh wrote, to Lord Baldwin: " There is an aesthetic bugger who sometimes turns up in my novels under various names -- that was 2 / 3 Brian and 1 / 3 Harold Acton.

In the memoirs of Evelyn Waugh he appears as ‘ a good bottle man ’, and in Sir Harold Acton's as an agreeable friend.

Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan, He also painted murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as Face to Face and designed theatrical sets.

James was educated briefly at Eton, and then at Le Rosey in Switzerland, then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton.

The Lord Harries of Pentregarth ( formerly the Lord Bishop of Oxford ), Tony Harrison, William Hazlitt, Thomas Hood, Ted Hughes, Leigh Hunt, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Laurie Lee, Jack London, Louis MacNeice, Mary Russell Mitford, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, E. ( Edith ) Nesbit, Ben Okri, Harold Pinter, Sylvia Plath, Thomas de Quincey, Ethel Rolt Wheeler, Alan Ross, Richard Savage, John Scott, Iain Sinclair, Derek Walcott, Evelyn Waugh and William Wordsworth.

Mark Waugh batted 404 minutes, and, despite controversy when Waugh hit one of his bails off ( under Law 35 he was adjudged to have finished his stroke and therefore given not out ), South Africa fell three wickets short.

The cartoons perfectly complemented Auberon Waugh's scabrous and surreal flights of invective, and when Waugh moved his column to The Daily Telegraph as the " Way of the World " in the mid-80s, Rushton followed.

) This large scale excursion into the use of colour was good practice for the monthly colour covers he created for the Literary Review when Auberon Waugh became its editor in the late 80s.

On the tour of South Africa, he missed three consecutive ODIs when tour selectors and fellow players Ian Healy and Steve Waugh voted him off the team.

Two days later against the West Indies at the SCG, Waugh took his first ODI catch when he caught Gordon Greenidge from Peter Taylor.

They were struggling at 3 / 33 in reply to Tasmania's 117 when Waugh came to the crease and made 198 not out from 390 balls.

The situation deteriorated when Australia fell to 5 / 126 and Greg Matthews joined Waugh at the crease.

Atherton's finest performances came when he was " against the wall ", such as his monumental 185 not out in 643 minutes to salvage a draw against South Africa, and his negation of an outstanding Allan Donald onslaught in 1998, and that this prompted Steve Waugh to dub him " The Cockroach " ( being very hard to stamp out ).

He was to be somewhat embarrassed when one of his staff ran off with the quite new wife of the then rising young writer Evelyn Waugh and he also had to deal with Eckersley after he had a rather public affair with a married woman also on the staff.

Waugh is said to have invented the cocktail party when he was active in London social life in the 1920s when he served rum swizzles to astonished friends who thought they had come for tea.

Waugh attended Hertford College ( 1922 – 24 ), and so, was in no sense, Bowra's pupil ; indeed they scarcely knew one another at that time, whereas Cyril Connolly, Henry Green and Anthony Powell knew Bowra quite well when they were undergraduates.

Waugh speaks of his belief in grace in a letter to Lady Mary Lygon: " I believe that everyone in his ( or her ) life has the moment when he is open to Divine Grace.

In Australia's 1999 tour of Sri Lanka, he was involved in a sickening outfield collision when both he and Steve Waugh were running to take a catch.

Ponting was selected for the third ODI on 12 March 1995 at Queen's Park Oval, when Mark Waugh missed out through injury.

Ponting — batting at three — was involved in a 59-run partnership with Steve Waugh ; however, he was dismissed for 43 when he lifted an attempted pull shot.

In his autobiography Will This Do ?, Waugh claimed that he had broken two bottles of wine by banging them together too hard to celebrate when she lost her seat in the House of Commons.

Waugh left Private Eye in 1986 when Ian Hislop succeeded Richard Ingrams as editor.

Neither did he conform to reactionary stereotypes in his strong opposition to the death penalty, or in his antipathy towards the police force in general ( especially when they sought to prevent drink-driving ; Waugh believed strongly that this was not as serious a problem as it is widely believed to be, and referred to the anti-drink-driving campaign as the " police terror ").

However, it is widely believed the sides containing the likes of Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, Gary Kirsten and Hansie Cronje grossly underachieved, gaining a reputation as " chokers ", due to them reaching the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup three times, but failing to progress into the finals, when Herschelle Gibbs dropped Australian captain Steve Waugh in 1999 in a Super Six match.

It is in the Super Six match that Steve Waugh is reported to have told Herschelle Gibbs " Mate, you just dropped the World Cup " when the latter dropped him en route to a match-winning century, a comment which has been denied by Waugh himself in interviews.

In June 2007, Greg Growden, Chief Rugby Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald said that " several high-ranking Australian Rugby Union sources told the Herald that Gregan was the " raging hot favourite " to be Australia's World Cup captain " However, when the World Cup squad was announced, Mortlock was named Captain, whilst Waugh and Gregan were named vice captains.