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Let Evelyn Waugh back into Combe Florey churchyard

My father enjoyed playing up to his misanthropic reputation. But its consequences now are beyond a joke

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Fifty years have passed since the death of my father, Evelyn Waugh. His remains, together with those of his wife Laura and daughter Margaret, are buried within a ha-ha which is now collapsing into the churchyard of St Peter and Paul, Combe Florey. My nephew, Alexander, and I hope that these graves could be incorporated in the churchyard as only a dilapidated wall separates them.

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