Biography of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was a twentieth century novelist.
When and Where was he Born?
28th October 1903, at 11 Hillfield Road, Hampstead, London, England. Christened Evelyn Arthur Waugh.
Family Background:
Evelyn Waugh was the second child of Arthur Waugh, a man of letters and publisher and Prudent Catherine Raban.
Education:
Lancing. Hertford College, Oxford.
Timeline of Evelyn Waugh:
1910: Wugh goes to Heath Mount preparatory school.
1917: He attends Lancing College in Sussex.
1922: He goes up to Hertford College, Oxford in January to read History.
1924: He leaves Oxford without taking his degree.
1925: He becomes a teacher at Arnold House School in Wales. This is an unhappy time and he attempts suicide by swimming out to sea but turns back after being stung by a jellyfish. He moves on to a school at Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.
1927: He is sacked from Aston Clinton School. He meets Evelyn Gardner for the first time.
1928: He is briefly apprenticed to a cabinet-maker then works as a journalist before he published his first novel, “Decline and Fall”. He marries Evelyn Gardner on 27th June 1928 at St. Paul’s Church, Portman Square, London.
1929: He goes on a Mediterranean cruise.
1930: He divorces Evelyn Gardner. He travels through Africa and converts to Roman Catholicism which was a major watershed in his life and his writing.
1933: He travels through South America.
1935: Waugh goes to Abyssinia reporting for the Daily Mail newspaper.
1936: He is divorced form Evelyn.
1937: He marries his second wife Laura Herbert on 17th April. They move to Piers Court, Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire.
1938: His daughter Teresa is born.
1939: His son Auberon is born. He joins the armed forces.
1940: The birth and death of daughter Mary. He is commissioned in the Royal Marines and becomes a special assistant to the commando leader Robert Laycock.
1941: Evelyn Waugh shows bravery during the fighting in Crete evacuating troops whilst under air attack.
1944: His daughter Harriet is born. He serves in Yugoslavia with Randolph Churchill, the son of Winston Churchill liaising with Marshall Tito’s Partisans.
1945: He returns to London and is demobbed.
1946: His son James is born.
1947: He visits the USA.
1948: He lectures extensively in the USA.
1950: His son Septimus is born.
1954: Waugh has a nervous breakdown during a voyage to Ceylon.
1955: He visits Jamaica.
1956: The family moves to Combe Florey, Somerset.
1958: Waugh travels through Africa.
When and Where did he Die?
10th April 1966, Combe Florey, Taunton, Somerset, England of a heart attack after attending a Sunday church service.
Age at Death:
62.
Written Works:
1932: “Black Mischief”.
1934: “A Handful of Dust.”
1935: “Biography of the Elizabethan Catholic martyr Edmund Campion.
1939: “Robbery Under Law” (Travel book).
1942: “Put Out More Flags”. “Work Suspended”.
1945: “Brideshead Revisited”.
1948: “The Loved One”.
1955: “Officers and Gentlemen”.
1957: “The Ordeal Of Gilbert Penfold”.
1961: “Unconditional Surrender”.
1963: “Basil Seal Rides Again”.
1964: “A Little Learning”. (Autobiography).
1976: “The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh”.
Marriages:
1. To Evelyn Gardner on 27th June 1928 at St. Paul’s Church, Portman Square, London. (Divorced 1936).
2. To Laura Herbert on 17th April 1937.
Site of Grave:
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Churchyard, Combe Florey, Somerset, England.
Places of Interest:
SOMERSET:
Combe Florey.