The Honourable Hugh Lygon | |
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 Portrait of The Hon. Hugh Lygon, by Ranken (1927). | |
| Born | Hugh Patrick Lygon November 2, 1904 |
| Died | August 19, 1936 (aged 31) |
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Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and, though often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Waugh told the Lygon family that this was not the case, Lygon was a close friend of the Waugh while at Oxford. A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers. They were both members of the Hypocrites' Club, along with their contemporaries Robert Byron, Murray Andrew McLean, and the Plunket Greene brothers, Richard and David, and of which Lygon was also president club,[1] David Plunket Greene was a good friend of Hugh Lygon.[2]
He was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Lygon was part of the Oxford Railway Club.
After leaving Oxford he worked in a bank in Paris before working in the City.
Lygon died in Germany in 1936, during a road trip with his friend, the artist Henry Wynn (a son of Lady Newborough). Lygon was standing in the road asking for directions, and accidentally fell backwards, hitting his head. Lygon spent four days in a hospital in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, eventually dying from a skull fracture suffered during the fall. His body was returned to England.[3][4]