Mark Amory

The bad boys of the Hypocrites Club

The witty, drunken, flamboyant aesthetes of 1920s Oxford included Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Yorke, Claud Cockburn and Robert Byron

Henry Yorke in the 1920s. Credit: Alamy 
issue 17 December 2022

  • Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

    David Fleming

    The History Press, pp. 296, £20

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