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Alastair Hugh Graham (27 June 1904 – 6 October 1982) was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh, and, according to Waugh's letters, one of his "romances". [1] He is, together with Hugh Lygon and Stephen Tennant , considered the main inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited .
Jun 7, 2021 · Hugh Graham’s son Alastair Graham grew up in Barford House just outside Warwick, a 12 bedroom home on almost 20 acres of ground. Mr Graham’s niece Mrs Kitty Macduff-Duncan remembered Evelyn Waugh spending weekends at the house.
- June 27, 1904
Photograph of Evelyn Waugh and Evelyn Gardner by Alastair Graham, 1928. Courtesy of Alexander Waugh. A few months prior to the Evelyns' wedding, and following several years' travel in the Levant, Alastair had joined the Diplomatic Service, taking over from Leonard Bowers.
Alastair Hugh Graham (27 June 1904 - 1982) was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh and, according to Waugh's letters, one of his "romances". He is, together with Hugh Lygon, considered the main inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.
- 1982 (77-78)
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- Son of Hugh Graham and Jessie Low
- June 27, 1904
May 26, 2017 · The biographer makes a strong case that Alastair Graham, not aristocrat Hugh Lygon, was both Waugh’s lover and the model for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. Eade notes that “it has often been suggested that he [Hugh] and Evelyn were lovers.
So now we have our intrepid threesome roving the graveyard on the look-out for Graham graves. Alastair's father was Hugh Graham (1860-1921) and he was brought up in Netherby Hall. Hugh was one of eight children of Sir Frederick Graham, the third baronet of Netherby.
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Apr 26, 2016 · But what happened to Alastair Graham doesn't echo Sebastian's fate. After years of drifting round the Levant, he returned to England and ended his life in a village on the Welsh Borders.
