“[Brian Howard’s] parentage was mysterious. He was grandly named Brian Christian de Clavering Howard, but his friends discovered that his father’s real name was Gassaway. The ‘Howard’ was made up - and rather bad form, since there was no connection with the Howards of Castle Howard.”

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Paula Byrne’s Mad World.


Brian Howard and Harold Acton, both prototypes of Anthone Blanche, were in Eaton with Hugh Lygon, but of course none of them was expelled. Both of them were openly gay.


As Evelyn Waugh was great friends with Acton in his Oxford days and didn’t much like Howard it is only natural Anthony Blanche is such a controversial figure.



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