Monck, General 7–8
Monroe, Marilyn 220
Montegufoni 120–121, 123, 127, 162, 184, 191, 193, 195–198, 209, 211, 215, 227, 229, 234–235
Moore, Marianne 219, 220
Morgan, Charles 203
Morgan, John Pierpont 127, 128
Morland, Henry 49
Morocco 196
Morrell, Ottoline 186
Mortimer, Raymond 183
Morton 37
Moscow 99
Mosley, Oswald 186, 194, 201
Mount Pleasant 47–50
Naples 115, 117, 134, 164, 166
Teatro di San Carlo 211
Nassau, Duchy of 73
Nation 157
Nevinson, C. R. W. 176, 218, 248
New Writing 228
New York 167, 218–219
The New York Times 221
Newcastle 100
Duke of 54
Newman, Ernest 165
Newton, Humphrey 27, 31
Nice 73
Nichols, Beverley 188–189
Nicolson, Harold 147, 208
Norfolk, Duke of 10
North Sea 90
Northampton 20
Northumberland 50
Norwich, John Julius 231
Nottingham 15, 17, 20, 21, 65
Noyes, Alfred 181
Nuremberg 98, 110
Ohio 219
Olivier, Edith 169, 187–188, 195
Owen, Wilfred 159
Oxford 53, 98, 143, 169, 172
Christ Church 162
Padula, monastery 163
Paris 31, 108, 120, 140, 176, 193, 202
School of 162, 172
Park Hall 18
Parke, Alice 53–54, 59–60
Parkin, William 39
Partridge, John 66
Paxton, Joseph 67
Peak District 2
Pearl Harbor 207
Pearson, John 219
Pepys, Samuel 11
Perugino 56, 127
Philips, Captain Ralph 18
Philips, Charles 35
Phipps, Samuel 50
Picasso, Pablo 162, 163, 167, 172, 218
Piers Court 221
Piper, John xiii, 166, 173, 206–207, 211–212, 215, 241, 243, 244, 248
Pitt, Moses 17
Platt, John 47
Pleasley 4
Plumbley Hall 4, 37
Po, River 196
Pole, Samuel 23–25
Poole, Henry 98
Portland, Duke of 57–58, 69, 239
Portsmouth 44
Portugal 202
Povey Hall 17, 32, 36
Powell, Anthony xiv, 168, 172, 188, 193, 194, 203, 205
Prince Regent see Wales, Prince of
Proctor, Jack 122
Puglia 116, 163
Punch 103
Quennell, Peter 186–189
Radbourne 23–24
Re, Vincenzo 211
Read, Herbert 159
Reresby, Mary 39
Restoration 5, 6, 13
Revel, William 9
Rhodes, Julian 21
Richard III 244
Richmond 81
Richmond, Sir William Blake 106
Rome 83, 115, 134, 138, 166
Villa d’Este 114
Rootham, Helen 140–141, 149, 164, 186, 202
Rosebery, Lord 100
Ross, Robbie 159
Rothenburg 110
Rother, River 3, 32, 61
Rotherham 36, 65
Rothschild, Baron Élie de 239
Round, J. H. 111
Rowntree, Joshua 100
Rugby 95
Runciman, Sir Steven 225
Ruskin, John 78, 134, 177
Russia 161, 201
see also Soviet Union
Ruvo 117
Sacheverell, Henry 21, 33, 34
Sacheverell, Jane 24–25, 33, 34, 36, 40
Sacheverell, Katherine 16
Sacheverell, Robert 19–21, 23, 24
‘Great Sacheverell Case’ 21, 25–26
Sacheverell, William 15, 19–21, 24, 32
Sackville-West, Vita 147, 166, 171
Sala, George Augustus 99
Salento 117
Salter, Elizabeth 140, 179, 225, 228
Sandhurst 143
Sandringham 125
Sargent, John Singer 106, 206, 218, 240
Sassoon, Siegfried xiv, 157–159, 161, 170, 171, 181, 187, 189
Sassoon, Sir Philip 199
Scalby 90
Scarborough 22, 45, 46, 88, 90, 92–94, 100–103, 108, 110, 113, 123, 131, 139, 148, 151, 152, 161, 168
The Scarborough Post 99
Scarsdale, Lord 28
Scotland 5, 22, 29, 44, 73, 80, 83
Highlands 68, 77, 78
Second World War 201–212, 241
Severini, Gino 162, 218
Seville 9, 11
Shaftesbury, Lord 78
Shalford 91
Shand, Bruce 232
Shaw, George Bernard 140, 159
Sheffield 2, 9, 10, 33, 39, 41, 43–45, 47, 48, 50, 62, 73, 124, 137, 185, 203–205, 210, 234, 237, 243
The Sheffield Iris 62
Sheffield Telegraph 243
Sherborne, Lady 55
Sicily 120
Sickert, Walter 159
Siena 120
Palazzo Buonsignori 90
Sitwell, Alexandra 235–236, 238–239, 244, 247–248
Sitwell, Alice 19–20, 32, 78, 79, 85
Sitwell, Blanche 83, 88
Sitwell, Campbell (‘Cammy’) 71
Sitwell, Edith 90, 93, 103, 105, 107–109, 128, 131–137, 139–142, 149, 158, 159, 164–165, 167, 168, 170–172, 179–183, 185–187, 190, 191, 193, 197, 198, 201–209, 212–214, 216–220, 225, 226, 228–230, 233, 240, 243, 245
as rival of Bloomsbury Group xiii–xiv, 175–182
caricature of Louisa Lucy Sitwell 79
feud with David Horner 224
is made a Dame of the British Empire 218
on Henry Moat 113
on Lady Ida Sitwell 101, 155
painted by John Singer Sargent 106
seventy-fifth birthday 226
similarity to Lady Ida Sitwell 202
Sitwell, Florence 78, 93–95, 178, 225
Sitwell, Florence Alice 83
Sitwell, Francis 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 24, 28–36, 39–41, 44, 59–60, 63
death 36–37
draft of Defence of our Penal Laws 36
financial difficulties 60–61
Sitwell, Francis (attorney) 33–34, 39
Sitwell, Francis (son of Sacheverell Sitwell) 229
Sitwell, Francis Hurt 41, 43–51, 53
Sitwell, George (Mr Justice) 15–26, 47
Sitwell, George Frederick (brother of Reresby Sitwell) 84
Sitwell, Sir George xiii, xiv, 1–15, 32, 60, 65–69, 74, 83, 89, 92, 94, 96–103, 105, 107–110, 123–127, 129, 133–137, 138, 143, 145, 147–152, 155, 157, 158, 160, 162, 163, 178, 179, 183–189, 191, 195, 197, 198, 202, 206, 208–209, 216–218, 226, 235, 236, 240–242, 245, 248
death 210
iron 4, 8–9, 11, 18
Italian visit 111–122
painted by John Singer Sargent 106
Sitwell, Georgiana 62, 67, 69–75, 178
Sitwell, John 9–12
Sitwell, Lady Ida 101–103, 105–110, 127, 128, 134, 135, 136–138, 145, 148–160, 165, 183–184, 186–187, 189, 190, 195, 202, 232
death 196–198
drinking 184
financial problems 144–145
imprisonment xiii, 154, 184
trial 152–154
Sitwell, Louisa Lucy 78–96, 98, 103, 110, 125, 148
Sitwell, Mary (sister of Reresby Sitwell) 81
Sitwell, Osbert 5, 56, 62, 73, 77, 103, 120–21, 126, 131–134, 135, 136, 137, 138–148, 151, 152, 154–156, 158–170, 172, 173, 179, 181–183, 185–199, 201–221, 225–235, 237, 239, 241, 243, 244, 245, 247, 248
as rival of
caricature of Louisa Lucy Sitwell 79
homosexuality 150, 185, 205
in the Army 143, 146, 156–157
is made a Companion of Honour 218
nursed by Frank Magro 229
on Eton College 138
on Henry Moat 116
on Lady Ida Sitwell 107, 109–110
on Lord Londesborough 106
on Louisa Lucy Sitwell 89, 91, 93, 95
on Sir George Sitwell 99, 110, 124, 128–129
overspending 195
Parkinson’s disease 223–224
visits Italy with Sir George Sitwell 115
Sitwell, Penelope 201, 224, 232–240, 242, 245, 248
Sitwell, Reresby 15, 125, 191, 195–198, 208, 209, 217, 229 231–236, 238–245, 247, 248
death 244–245
Eton College 232
Sitwell, Reresby (brother of Georgiana Sitwell) 74, 77–86, 89
Sitwell, Robert 4, 9, 10
Sitwell, Roger 4
Sitwell, Sacheverell 103, 131, 133, 135, 140–142, 150, 155, 158–160, 162–169, 172, 180–183, 185–187, 193, 195, 197, 198, 207, 209, 210, 216, 217, 219, 224, 225, 227–234, 240, 241, 243, 245
as rival of Bloomsbury Group xiii–xiv, 175–182
at Oxford 162
discovers William Walton 169
Eton College 155
in the Army 158
is made a Companion of Honour 229
Sitwell, Simon 4
Sitwell, Sitwell 48, 49, 53–63, 65, 136, 221, 236, 238, 242
death 61
gout 61
Sitwell, Dr Thomas 28, 32
Sitwell, William 39–41, 43–46
death 41–42
Slitting Mill Farm 60
Smith-Wright, John 65
Smyth, Ethel 91
Solimena, Francesco 119, 141
Solovyov, Vladimir 140
Soviet Union 207
see also Russia
The Spectator 31
Spender, Stephen 219
The Sporting Magazine 53
Squillace 116
Squire, J. C. 181
St Petersburg 236
Stainsborough 47
Staveley 7
Netherthorpe Hall 4
Steel, John 18
Stein, Gertrude 170, 179
Stovin, Caroline 60, 65
Strachey, Lytton 159, 164, 176, 178–181, 230
Strafford, Earl of see Wentworth, Thomas
Stratfield Saye 197
The Sunday Times 165, 216
Sunnyside 88
Surrey 91
Sussex 177
Sutton Scarsdale 28, 206, 241
Switzerland 208–209
Syria 10
Tait, Archibald 68
Tait, Campbell, Bishop of London 85, 89, 94, 97, 99, 100, 102, 111
Tait, Susan 67–68
Tanganyika 223
Tchelitchew, Pavel 193, 202, 218, 248
Teby, Paulina 80
Tedeschi, Riccardo 118
Texas 219
Thames, River 31
Thomas, Dylan xiv, 214
Thomas, Francis Inigo 125
Thomson, ‘Thos’ 29
The Times 97, 210, 244
Thrybergh 39
Torond, Francis 46
Towndrough, Vincent 29–30
Trani 118
Tree, Iris 158
Trefusis, Violet 147
Treviso 115
The True Briton 57
Turnbull, Peveril 89, 106
Tuscany 111, 126, 235
United States 216, 218–220, 226, 242
Universal Magazine 54
Varese, Cicogna garden 114
Venice 134, 135, 196, 198, 217
Morosini palace 118
Verona 118
Palazzo Giusti 114
Vicenza, Palazzo Bonin 115
Victoria, Queen 66, 68
Villa Allegra 95
Villa Bernardini 114
Virginia 4, 19
Viterbo, Villa Lante 114
Wake, Drury 79
Wake, Sir William 49
Wales, Prince of 50, 58–59
Waley, Arthur 190, 205
Wallace, Nellie 170
Walton, Henry 49
Walton, William 162, 164, 169–170, 186–188, 190, 226
Warneford Place 45
Warneford, Mary 45–46
Waugh, Evelyn xiii–xiv, 162, 164, 188, 190, 193, 205, 210–213, 216, 219–224, 228, 230
Weedon Lois 82
Welbeck 57
Wells, H. G. 146, 159
Wentworth Castle 47
Wentworth Woodhouse 50, 58, 214
Wentworth, Thomas 43, 47
West Indies 4, 9
West Looe 57
West Riding 2
West, Rebecca 167
Weston 82
Manor 185
Weston Hall 79, 217, 237
Wharncliffe, Earls of 124
Whistler, Rex xiii, 172, 187, 189, 210, 218, 224, 233, 248, 249
Whiston 36, 65, 243
Whitgift Hall 60
Whitworth, John 30
Wiesbaden 73
Wigfall, Henry 2, 4, 5, 54
Wight, Isle of 139
Wilberforce, William 58
William III 18
and Mary 17, 32, 47
William IV 69, 90
William of Orange 17
Wilmot, Robert 34–35
Wilson, John Philip 145
Windsor 74
Wingerworth 9, 18
Wood End 90, 92, 93, 101, 103, 113, 131, 145, 149, 151
Woolf, Virginia xiv, 166, 170–171, 175–183, 193, 205, 247
Woolton, Lord 210
Worksop 35
Wortley Hall 124
Wyndham-Tennant, Bimbo 161
Yeats, W. B. 168, 218
York 34, 44, 45, 58, 89
Duchess of 199
Duke of 56
York Chronicle 41
Ziegler, Philip 175–176, 216, 238
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Cover image: The Sitwell Family by J. S. Sargent, M. Kennedy/Renishaw Hall.
Page iii: Renishaw Hall by Rex Whistler
Plate section 1
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Plate section 2
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