The Old Rectory, Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire

Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 19 Apr 2007

This was for a period in the 1960s the home of the journalist and author Auberon Waugh. Waugh was the eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and, although he wrote several novels himself, he is perhaps best known for his satirical columns in the pages of ‘Private Eye’ and the ‘Daily Telegraph’. His output was almost guaranteed to give the average ‘Grauniad’ reader a fit of the vapours at regular intervals. Shortly after his death in January 2001, a certain Polly Toynbee penned a curious obituary, the tone of which would have had the great man laughing out loud had he been able to read it. Ms T's deathless prose is still online http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/jan/19/news.comment He also had the great honour of being described by the (thankfully) late posh pinko Anthony Wedgwood Benn somewhere in his scribblings as a "most unpleasant man". The image was obtained from the adjacent churchyard of St Mary's. There are no privacy issues with this image; Waugh both identified the property and included a photograph of it in his hilarious autobiography ‘Will this do?’

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