Many well-known figures attended Lancing College, including novelists Tom Sharpe and Evelyn Waugh, lyricist Tim Rice and singer Peter Pears.

Waugh was born, the son of a clergyman, in Settle, North Yorkshire and attended theological college in Bradford before moving to Newbury, Berkshire and then in 1866 to London.

The likes of Steve Waugh, Lachlan Murdoch, David Gallop, John Singleton and Jack Gibson attended the book's launch at the Australian Museum in Sydney on 7 May 2002.

* Steve Waugh and Mark Waugh, former Australian cricketers, attended Panania Public School and East Hills Boys Technology High School.

Cooper himself attended Lancing in Sussex from 1932-1936, a school associated with fine writing, having produced in the 20th century Evelyn Waugh, Sir David Hare, Christopher Hampton, Tom Sharpe, Sir Tim Rice, and the playwright Royce Ryton.

In 1922, the novelist Evelyn Waugh came up to Hertford, famously feuding with his history tutor C. R. M. F. Cruttwell ( who was to become the fourth Principal of the refounded College, 1930 – 1939 ), and later naming a number of odious characters after him.

Waugh wrote of his time a Hertford, ' I do no work here and never go to Chapel '.

Moreover, Evelyn Waugh had met and approved Giles Cooper as the scriptwriter, having their schooling at Lancing College in common, albeit more than a decade apart.

With the cooperation of his fiancée, who was a student at Smith College, Waugh set his police procedural Last Seen Wearing ... in a fictional women's college.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba ( UFM ), defeating Conservative incumbent Reuben Waugh by 137 votes in the Norfolk constituency.

He was returned in the 1927 election, defeating Waugh by thirty-four votes in a rematch from the 1922 contest.

* 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist ( b. 1939 )

Muralitharan completed another twelve overs without further no-balls and, after bowling Mark Waugh, finished the day with figures of 18 – 3 – 58 – 1.

* 1939 – Auberon Waugh, English author ( d. 2001 )

With Frederick Waugh, he introduced the celebrated Frisch – Waugh theorem ( Econometrica 1933 ) ( sometimes referred to as the Frisch – Waugh – Lovell theorem ).

* Waugh, Mary, Smuggling in Kent and Sussex 1700 – 1840 ( Countryside Books, 1985, updated 2003 ).

* October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer ( d. 1966 )

* April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author ( b. 1903 )

* September 3 – Alec Waugh, British novelist ( b. 1898 )

Along with the Waugh twins, Steve and Mark, Taylor played in under-19 youth internationals for Australia against Sri Lanka in 1982 – 83.

* Auberon Waugh ( 1939 – 2001 ), author and journalist

Waugh returned to Australia for the 1985 – 86 season, looking to make his first-class debut.

Waugh was seeking to force his way into the Australian team at the start of the 1988 – 89 season.

Waugh returned to Australia in preparation for the 1989 – 90 season, having been overlooked for the ODI squad for the Nehru Cup in India.

Waugh scored 187 in the Third Test at Melbourne as Australia won 1 – 0.

Waugh made only 24 in the second innings as the home team hung on for a draw to secure the Shield.

On 6 February 1977, out of 57 cars that started the 24 Hours of Daytona, Championship of Makes, at Daytona International Speedway, an AMC Hornet driven by Tom Waugh, John Rulon-Miller, and Bob Punch drove car # 15 to 22nd place overall and 12th in the GTO class by completing 394 laps in.

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.

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.

* Scoop ( novel ), a 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence

* Helena ( 1950 novel ), by Evelyn Waugh

* The English writer Auberon Waugh, writing in The Spectator in the 1970s in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking ( whose research was challenged ), coined the verb " to pilger ", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion.

Failing to make a substantial score in the series ( he tallied 26 runs in four innings ), Waugh was retained for the subsequent tour of New Zealand.

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.

*** Catherine Charlotte Raban ( Chittagong, Bengal, 12 June 1870-1954 ), married at Axebridge, Somerset, in 1893 to Arthur Waugh ( 1866-1943 ) and had two sons, Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh

The authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh, the journalist Claud Cockburn, Claudia Cockburn ( wife of actor Michael Flanders ) and author Sarah Caudwell were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists Laura Flanders, Stephanie Flanders, Alexander Cockburn ( husband of author Emma Tennant ), Andrew Cockburn ( husband of journalist Leslie Cockburn ) and Patrick Cockburn ( son-in-law of Bishop Hugh Montefiore ) and actress Olivia Wilde ( former wife of Tao Ruspoli ).

Alexander Raban Waugh ( Alec Waugh ) ( 8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981 ), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher.

Alec Waugh was the author of In Praise of Wine & Certain Noble Spirits ( 1959 ), an amusing and discursive guide to the major wine types, and Wines and Spirits, a 1968 book in the Time-Life series Foods of the World.

In The Comics ( 1947 ), Coulton Waugh described Willard's art style as " gritty-looking.

* Coulton Waugh ( 1896 – 1973 ), artist ( of Dickie Dare comic strip ) and mapmaker, who created a Newburgh pictorial map

Waugh was also responsible for expanding the number of buildings on the island – creating the now ruined village of Maryland ( named after Waugh's wife ), as well as adding a new gatehouse and tower in the Tudor style.