Portrait of The Hon. Hugh Lygon, by Ranken (1927).
Born
Hugh Patrick Lygon
(1904-11-02)November 2, 1904
Died
August 19, 1936(1936-08-19) (aged 31)
Rothenburg, Bavaria
Parents
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (father)
Lady Lettice Grosvenor (mother)
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. A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers. They were both members of the Hypocrites' Club, along with their contemporaries Robert Byron, Murray Andrew McLean, and the Plunket Greene brothers, Richard and David, and of which Lygon was also president club,[1] David Plunket Greene was a good friend of Hugh Lygon.[2]
^Lebedoff, David (2008). The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War. Random House Publishing Group. p. 30. ISBN 9781588367082. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^Byrne, Paula. Mad World. p. 12. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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...
together with HughLygon and Stephen Tennant, considered the main inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. Alastair Hugh Graham was born...
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903–1979), politician, son of the seventh earl HughLygon (1904–1936), son of the seventh earl Lady Lettice Lygon (1906–1973)...
dissolute Lord Sebastian Flyte was modelled after HughLygon and Lady Julia Flyte after Lady Mary Lygon. The book, which Byrne describes in the preface...
that was fashionable". His cousin was HughLygon and therefore he was often a guest at Madresfield Court. Lygon and David attended West Downs together...
Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, HughLygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron...
Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, HughLygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron...
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...
Lady Mary Lygon (formerly Princess Romanovsky-Pavlovsky; 12 February 1910 – 27 September 1982), known as Maimie, was a British aristocrat and Russian...
Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, HughLygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny...
characters: Lady Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh HughLygon (1904–1936) Books: Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's...
author of Brideshead Revisited, had homosexual relationships with HughLygon and Alastair Hugh Graham, among others. Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930...
is a country house in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The home of the Lygon family for nearly six centuries, it has never been sold and has passed only...
have largely been replaced by a renamed terrace of eight houses known as Lygon Place, recessed behind a small green. A local estate, "Eia", is mentioned...
Earl of Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, HughLygon, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross,...
Lygon was the receptionist at the hairdressing and beauty establishment in Bond Street run by Violet Cripps, former wife of her maternal uncle, Hugh Grosvenor...
led his own 16-man Oxford University summer expedition which included HughLygon who also invited Evelyn Waugh (who nearly drowned when a glacier thawed)...
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