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Auberon Waugh

British journalist and novelist (1939–2001)

Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was a British journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".

After a traditional classical education at Downside School, he was commissioned in the army during National Service, where he was badly injured in a shooting accident. He went on to study for a year at Oxford University.

At twenty, he launched his journalism career at the Telegraph Group, and also wrote for many other publications including Private Eye, in which he presented a profile that was half Tory grandee and half cheeky rebel. As a young man, Waugh wrote five well-received novels, but gave up fiction for fear of unfavourable comparisons with his father.

He and his wife Lady Teresa had four children and lived at Combe Florey House in Somerset.

Origins

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Waugh was born at Pixton Park, near Dulverton in Somerset, his mother's ancestral home.^[1] He was the eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, grandson of the author and publisher Arthur Waugh and nephew of Alec Waugh. His mother was Laura Herbert, his father's second wife, a daughter of Colonel Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923) of Pixton, diplomat and t

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Will This Do?: The Memoirs of Auberon Waugh

July 31, 2011

I think if my father were Evelyn Waugh and I had literary inclinations, I would either (a) suppress them and become an accountant or something or (b) change my name (various children of famous writers have done this, like Stephen King's son, if I recall) so that I could rise or fall on my on my own merits. Auberon Waugh, as it turns out, has very few merits as a novelist, and so trying to coast on his family name—and failing even to succeed in that—was his first mistake. The snarky middlebrow comic novels he's churned out are so far from being half as good as, say, "Scoop" or "A Handful of Dust" that it is painful (plus, he has the chutzpah to mock the snarky, middlebrow, and incidentally far better, books of his uncle, Alec Waugh). And what I *certainly* never would have done, if I were Auberon Waugh, is written this precise memoir. For fans of Waugh (and when people say simply "Waugh" they always and always will mean Evelyn), this book is valuable in offering insights into his character and distinct lack of parenting skills. Like the story of how the three bananas (one per child) allotted under post-war rationing to the Waugh family—the children had never seen a banana, let alone tasted one—were served to Evelyn by hi

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Auberon Waugh; Bitter Writer, Comic and Reviser Was Soul of Novelist Evelyn Waugh

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