Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust , the novel Brideshead Revisited and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour . As a writer, Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born onOctober 1903 to Arthur Waugh and Catherine Charlotte Raban , into a family with English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Huguenot origins. Distinguished forebears include Lord Cockburn , a leading Scottish advocate and judge, William Morgan , a pioneer of actuarial science who served the Equitable Life Assurance Society for 56 years, and Philip Henry Gosse , a natural scientist who became notorious through his depiction as a religious fanatic in his son Edmunds memoir Father and Son. Among ancestors bearing the Waugh name, the Rev. Alexander Waugh was a minister in the Secession Church of Scotland who helped found the London Missionary Society and was one of the leading Nonconformist preachers of his day. His grandson Alexander Waugh was a country medical practitioner, who bullied his wife and children and became known in the Waugh family as the Brute. The elder of his two sons, born in 1866, was Arthur Waugh.
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