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.
Hugh Lygon
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Hugh Patrick Lygon was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and, though often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Waugh told
Hypocrites' Club
…call themselves an artists’ club but all they draw is corks!" Lord Elmley 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…
Portrait of The Hon. Hugh Lygon, by Ranken (1927).