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Auberon Waugh

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Auberon Waugh was born on November 17, 1939 in Dulverton, Somerset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Thirty Minute Theatre (1961), Television Scrabble (1984) and Good News Week (1996). He was married to Teresa Lorraine Onslow. He died on January 16, 2001 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England, UK.

Grandfather of six.
Father of Margaret Sophia Laura (b. 1962), Alexander Evelyn Michael (b. 1963), Daisy Louisa Dominica (b. 1967) and Nathaniel Thomas Biafra (b. 1968).
Son of writer Evelyn Waugh and Laura Laetitia Herbert.
After he was asked to leave Oxford University, his father told him that there were now only two professions left open to him - schoolmaster or spy.
He was best-known for his contributions to "Private Eye", the British satirical magazine, between 1970 and 1986. He left it to become the editor of "The Literary Review", a magazine he edited until his death.

It is a sad fact of journalism that people only tell you your stuff is any good after you have stopped writing it.
[on Paul Foot]: For those who find it hard to understand how anyone can claim to believe in workers' power without being a fool or a rogue, I produce Footie as my first exhibit. He is clever and funny and kind. Obviously, there is a screw loose somewhere, but we all have our oddities.
[writing in 1991}: Looking back over my career to date, and at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
[on the Jeremy Thorpe case]: I found myself genuinely indignant that murder was to be reintroduced as a means to political advancement for the first time since the Tudors.
[after the acquittal of Jeremy Thorpe on a charge of conspiracy to murder in 1979]: How could it have occurred to any of us for a moment that Thorpe was anything but innocent? Speaking for myself, I think it may have been something to do with the double-breasted waistcoats he wears. At my school, prefects were allowed to wear these absurd garments as a badge of office. So many of them were hypocrites, sodomites and criminal psychopaths that I understandably jumped to the conclusion that Jeremy Thorpe might just possibly be one, too.

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