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Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (30 December 1963 – 22 July 2024) was an English writer, critic, and journalist. Among other books, he wrote Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), about five generations of his own family, and The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (2008) about the Wittgenstein family.
Waugh was born in London to Arthur Waugh (1866-1943) and Catherine Charlotte Raban, a great-granddaughter of Lord Cockburn (1779–1854). Another distinguished ancestor was his great-great-grandfather William Morgan FRS (1750–1833), a pioneer of actuarial science who served The Equitable Life Assurance Society for 56 years and who won the Copley Medal in 1789. [1]
His grandson Alexander Waugh (1840–1906) was a country medical practitioner, who bullied his wife and children and became known in the Waugh family as "the Brute". The elder of Alexander's two sons, born in 1866, was Evelyn's father, Arthur Waugh.
Alexander Waugh was born in East Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland, on 16 August 1754, to Thomas Waugh (1706–1783), a farmer at East Gordon and third generation Covenanter, and Margaret Johnstone (1714–1789), [2]: 1 daughter of Alexander Johnstone (b.1688), who also farmed in East Gordon, and Elizabeth Waugh (1685–1735).
Ric Roman Waugh (born 1968), American film director; Richard Waugh (born 1961), voice actor; Robert T. Waugh (1919–1944), American Army Officer, Medal of Honor recipient; Russell Waugh (born 1941), Australian cricketer; Samuel Waugh (1814–1885), American painter Frederick Judd Waugh (1861–1940), American marine painter and camouflage ...
The English Waugh family, descendants of Arthur Waugh, many of whom have been writers. Pages in category "Waugh family" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Waugh was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, in 1866, [1] elder son of prosperous country physician Alexander Waugh (1840-1906), who bullied his wife and children and became known in the Waugh family as "the Brute", and Annie (née Morgan), of a strict Plymouth Brethren background.
The Alexander P. and James S. Waugh House is an historic, American home that is located in Greenville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [ 1 ]