Hypocrites' Club
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The Hypocrites' Club was one of the student clubs at Oxford University in England. Its motto in Greek, from an Olympian Ode by Pindar, was Water is best. This led to the members being called Hypocrite
One of the Hypocrites' Club fancy dress parties
Alastair Hugh Graham
Arden Hilliard, first on the left
Railway Club at Oxford. Left to right, back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe; front: porters.
Robert Byron (travel writer)
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Robert Byron was an English travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also an art critic and historian.
Hypocrites' Club
…was the president of the club and Waugh was the secretary. Members included: Hugh Lygon; Lord Clonmore; Anthony Powell; Graham Pollard; Harold Acton; Robert Byron; Alfred Duggan; Mark Ogilvie-Grant; Arden Hilliard; Gavin Henderson; David Plunket Greene; Terence Lucy Greenidge; Raoul Loveday; Alastair Hugh Graham…
Byron and Desmond Parsons in China sometime before 1937
Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa, photographed by Robert Byron. Photograph held in The Courtauld Conway Library of Art and architecture.
Robert Byron's British passport issued in 1923