Auberon Waugh
Auberon Alexander Waugh (; 17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist, and eldest son of 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.
At twenty, he launched his Fleet Street career at the Telegraph Group, though he also wrote for many other media, including Private Eye, presenting a profile that was half Tory grandee and half cheeky rebel. As a young man, Waugh wrote five novels that were quite well received, but gave up fiction, for fear of unfavourable comparisons with his father.
He and his wife Lady Teresa had four children, and they lived at their manor house in Combe Florey in Somerset.
Education and early career
Born at his maternal grandparents' house at Pixton Park, Dulverton, Somerset, he was known as "Bron" by friends and family. He was the second child and first son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and his second wife, Laura (née Herbert). His paternal grandfather was author and publisher Arthur Waugh and his uncle was Alec Waugh. His maternal grandfather was diplomat and traveller Aubrey Herbert, and through him Auberon Waugh was related to Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, a leading member of the Conservative Party, Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, ambassador to the United States, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the famous Egyptologist who discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb, and the Irish Viscount de Vesci. He was named after his mother's brother, a landowner and advocate of Eastern European causes after World War II.
