Maugham is a surname most commonly associated with the English literary family. The name is a variant of Malham, Malgham, and Malghum. Families with the name originate from the area surrounding Malham and Kirkby Malham.[1]
Well-known persons with this surname include:
Robert Ormond Maugham, English barrister and father of Somerset Maugham
Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, English statesman, the eldest son of the previous
Robin Maugham, English writer, the only son of the previous
Honor Earl, English painter, daughter of Frederic Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham, English writer, best known of the Maughams
Syrie Maugham, wife
Daphne Mabel Maugham, painter
^Robin Maugham (1967) [1966]. Somerset and all the Maughams. New American Library. p. 77. ISBN 0-19-508137-4.
best known of the Maughams Syrie Maugham, wife Daphne Mabel Maugham, painter Robin Maugham (1967) [1966]. Somerset and all the Maughams. New American Library...
Jolyon Toby Dennis Maugham KC (/mɔːm/; born 1 July 1971) is a British barrister. Initially a practitioner in contentious taxation law, he stepped away...
Gwendoline Maud Syrie Maugham (née Barnardo, formerly Wellcome; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and...
Somerset Maugham following the death of Gerald Haxton in 1944. He took up residence at Maugham's villa on the Riviera and remained with him until Maugham's death...
Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British author. Trained as a barrister,...
an English classical scholar. He was an associate and lover of Somerset Maugham, whom he met when they were both studying in Heidelberg in 1890. In later...
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical...
Daphne Mabel Maugham later Daphne Maugham-Casorati (1897–1982) was a British painter, who emigrated to Turin, Italy. Daphne was born in either London,...
residents and visitors, including a fictionalized version of William Somerset Maugham. The novel was longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and listed among notable...
term secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham. He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving...
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards...
Chancellor, Frederic Maugham, Baron Maugham. He had already been created a life peer under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Baron Maugham, of Hartfield...
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing...
three novels including Infinite Ground (2016), which won the Somerset Maugham Award and In Ascension (2023). His work often delves into themes of the...
(1899–1960) to serve as the main residence of the British novelist Somerset Maugham. Surrounded by gardens and terraces, this villa has received numerous writers...
by Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) "The Letter", a short story in W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree "The Letter", 38th sura of the Qur'an...
Betty Trask Award, and Once Upon a Time in England, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. Walsh was born in Warrington, Cheshire, in 1976. At the age of 16...
to wealthy businessman Henry Wellcome, and later to the writer Somerset Maugham, and became a socially prominent London interior designer. Barnardo died...
in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie...
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