Alec Waugh (1 works by) (a.k.a. Alexander Raban Waugh )
Born: Established: 8 Jul 1898 Hampstead ; Died: 3 Sep 1981 Tampa
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion
Portrait appears in The Home, March 1933 (p.21) with caption: 'Mr Alec Waugh and his wife, who was formerly Miss Joan Chirnside, of Melbourne, photographed while spending their honeymoon at Antibes on the French Riviera.' AGT (17/10/2011)

Notes

  • English novelist and travel writer; brother of the writer Evelyn Waugh.
  • The October 1932 issue of The Home includes details of a recently announced 'engagement which aroused much interest...that of Miss Joan Chirnside, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Chirnside, Edrington, Berwick, [Victoria] to Mr Alec Waugh...the author of The Loom of Youth; he is a leading member of one of the most brilliant literary sets in London.' (appears in the Melbourne 'Personal and Social' column)