Auberon Alexander Waugh was an English journalist, and eldest son of Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname Bron.
After a traditional classical education at Downside School, he was commissioned in the army during National Service, where he was badly injured in a shooting accident. He went on to study for a year at Oxford.
At twenty, he launched his Fleet Street career at the Telegraph Group, though he also wrote for many other media, including Private Eye, presenting a profile that was half Tory grandee and half cheeky rebel. As a young man, Waugh wrote five novels that were quite well received, but gave up fiction, for fear of unfavourable comparisons with his father.
He and his wife Lady Teresa had four children, and they lived at their manor house in Combe Florey in Somerset.
"The Power Urge," essay in The Spectator (15 December, 1982); reprinted in Another Voice (1986)
“I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.”
Cited in Times Literary Supplement, 6 March 2009.
