In May 1927, he was taken on by the paper as a rookie reporter. And Evelyn's relationship with the Daily Express went back a long way. Lord Beaverbrook was the founder of the Daily Express, among other titles. Could Miss Nancy Spain of the Daily Express come to visit? Laura relayed the request to Evelyn, and brought back Evelyn's reply that his private home was not open to members of the Beaverbrook press. The morning of June 21, 1955, kicked off with an incoming phone call at Piers Court. Put it this way, she was married to an alcoholic Catholic (the two words are almost anagrams!) who fathered seven children through her, one dying shortly after birth. One suspects she had to put up with a lot. Once they were married, his pet name for her was ‘Whiskers’. To begin with, Waugh called her ‘the white mouse’. I hope you can see what a cocky little guy he was. I believe that the jacket was of a light brown check with a 3-inch check of bright red running through it. He was beginning to look like a country squire. This is a picture taken of Evelyn in the mid-1950s. An exploration of the concept of male honour, you might say. Which concerns Waugh’s experience of the Second World War. In June, 1955, his novel Officers and Gentlemen was just about to be published. They were still living there in 1955, the year we’re concerned with tonight. It’s where Evelyn and Laura were living when he finished his fifth novel, Scoop, in 1938. The house was effectively a present from Evelyn Waugh’s wife’s mother on the occasion of their marriage in 1937. Let’s start with an image of Piers Court.

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