Bright young things

{{Short description|1920s group of aristocratic socialites}} {{Use British English|date=January 2026}} {{about|young aristocrats of 1920s London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} __NOTOC__ [[File:Bright Young Things – Argus Leader headline (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|The Prince of Wales and his fashionable friends, members of the Bright Young things, took part in an all-night treasure hunting, which was observed by the slum dwellers, at four o’clock – ''Argus-Leader'', 06 Sep 1924.]] [[File:Vile bodies.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Richard Plunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.]] The '''Bright Young Things''', or '''Bright Young People''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm#The%20Flat%20Chest%20Of%20The%20Twenties|title=1920s Flapper Fashion History. C20th Costume History for Women in the 1920s|author=Pauline Thomas|work=fashion-era.com|access-date=4 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810092740/http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm#The%20Flat%20Chest%20Of%20The%20Twenties|archive-date=10 August 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englandattraction.com/1920s.html|title=14 – 1920s Entertainment 1920s Music 1920s Popular Entertainment Radio 1922 Sports Pink Flannel|work=englandattraction.com|access-date=4 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813035307/http://www.englandattraction.com/1920s.html|archive-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> was a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the 1920s. The name was given to them by the tabloid press.<ref>Philip Hoare, 'Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004</ref> They threw flamboyant fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, and some drank heavily or used illicit drugs — all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Charles Graves and Tom Driberg.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|last=Rubin |first=Martin |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123154973492170131 |title=Book Review of "Bright Young People" - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2009-01-10 |access-date=2010-05-08}}</ref>

They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (''Highland Fling''), Anthony Powell (''A Dance to the Music of Time''), Henry Green (''Party Going''), Dorothy L. Sayers (''Murder Must Advertise''), and the poet John Betjeman. Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel ''Vile Bodies'', adapted as the 2003 film ''Bright Young Things'', is a satirical look at this scene.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> Cecil Beaton began his career in photography by documenting this set, of which he was a member.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibitions/cecil-beaton.html |title=Cecil Beaton: in association with Sotheby's |publisher=Chris Beetles Galleries |date=2009 |access-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124056/http://www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibitions/cecil-beaton.html |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Prominent members of the group included:

{{div col|colwidth=15em}} * Harold Acton * Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross * Cecil Beaton * John Betjeman * Edward Burra * Robert Byron * Sheila Chisholm * Daphne Fielding * Edward Gathorne-Hardy * Terence Greenidge * Bryan Guinness * Gavin Henderson * Brian Howard * Arthur Jeffress * Teresa Jungman * Zita Jungman * Barbara Ker-Seymer * Oliver Messel * Diana Mitford * Nancy Mitford * Beverley Nichols * Brenda Dean Paul * Babe Plunket Greene * David Plunket Greene * Olivia Plunket Greene * Richard Plunket Greene * Elizabeth Ponsonby * Loelia Ponsonby * Anthony Powell * Elizabeth Russell * Edith Sitwell * Osbert Sitwell * Sacheverell Sitwell * Eleanor Smith * David Tennant * Stephen Tennant * Henry Thynne * William Walton * Sylvia Townsend Warner * Evelyn Waugh * Rex Whistler * Sunday Wilshin * Olivia Wyndham * Henry Yorke {{div col end}}

==List of 'Bright Young Things', their associates, and those who documented them== The following is a list of the Bright Young Things, their friends, acquaintances and associates of the period, many of whom were the basis for characters in the novels written by members of the group such as Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Nancy Mitford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview2|title = DJ Taylor on the bohemian group of Bright Young People| website=TheGuardian.com |date = 29 September 2007}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Image ! Name ! Characterization |- |100px |Harold Acton (1904–1994) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter">{{cite book|last1=Carpenter|first1=Humphrey|title=The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends|date=2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571309283|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUhlAgAAQBAJ|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster">{{cite book|last1=Lancaster|first1=Marie-Jaqueline|title=Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure|date=2005|publisher=Timewell Press|page=122|isbn=9781857252118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IVRYLb2wcAC&pg=PA122|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |William Acton (1906–1945) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party">{{cite journal|title=Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque – 31 May 1930, Sat • Page 52|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1930|page=52|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16802072/the_winnipeg_tribune/|access-date=23 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Kathleen Adam Smith (1900–1941)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomson, Kathleen Buchanan (1900-1941), wife of Sir George Paget Thomson - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk |url=https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/thomson-kathleen-buchanan-1900-1941-wife-of-sir-george-paget-thomson |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=Archives of Trinity College, Cambridge}}</ref> |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |John Amery (1912–1945) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Leo Amery (1873–1955) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Michael Arlen (1895–1956) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Sylvia Ashley (1904–1977) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Portraits''': 1933, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1900–1947) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Lettice Ashley-Cooper (1911–1990) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902–1936) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Adele Astaire (1896–1981) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Clement Attlee (1883–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Mae Bacon (1897–1981) |'''Newspaper articles''': London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- |100px |Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Edythe Baker (1899–1971) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Oliver Baldwin (1899–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Ruth Baldwin (1905–1937) |'''Books''': ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> |- |100px |Patrick Balfour (1904–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Thomas Balston (1883–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- |100px |John Banting (1902–1972) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Alexander Baring (1898–1991) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924">{{cite journal|title=Bright Young People of the Rising Generation – 20 Sep 1924, Sat • Home Edition • Page 25|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1924|page=25|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16582763/the_winnipeg_tribune/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Maurice Baring (1874–1945) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Poppy Baring (1901–1980) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Elvira Dolores Barney (1904–1936) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |H. M. Bateman (1887–1970) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Beverley Baxter (1891–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Baba Beaton (1912–1973) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Dancing to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell '''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery">{{cite web|title=Anthony Wysard (1907–1984), Caricaturist|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07945/anthony-wysard?role=art|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Nancy Beaton (1909–1999) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Clive Bell (1881–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Babe Bendir (b. 1907) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Margot Bendir |'''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Lord Berners (1883–1950) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Lord Merlin in ''Love in a Cold Climate'' by Nancy Mitford Lord Merlin in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |John Betjeman (1906–1984) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Paul Fotheringay in ''Christmas Pudding'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul">{{cite book|last1=Rintoul|first1=M.C.|title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|page=397|isbn=9781136119408|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3gBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA397|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Edmund Blunden (1896–1974) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Robert Boothby (1900–1986) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) |'''Newspaper articles''': London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- |100px |Maurice Bowra (1898–1971) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Brendan Bracken (1901–1958) |'''Fictional characters''': Rex Mottram in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Georges Braque (1882–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Lady Diana Bridgeman (1907–1967) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- | |Jessie Doris Browne (1900–1942) |'''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Valentine Browne (1891–1943) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Frank Buchman (1878–1961) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Guy Burgess (1911–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Edward Burra (1905–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Mary Butts (1890–1937) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Robert Byron (1905–1941) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Albert Gates in ''Highland Fling'' by Nancy Mitford Ben Gore in Blindness by Henry Green<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- | |Denis Capel-Dunn (1903–1945) |'''Books''': ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> '''Fictional characters''': Kenneth Widmerpool in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- | |Dudley Carew (1903–1981) |'''Books''': ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> |- |100px |Billie Carleton (1896–1918) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Dora Carrington (1893–1932) |'''Fictional characters''': Betty Blyth in ''The Apes of God'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Audrey Carten (1900–1977) | |- | |Kenneth Carten (1911–1980) | |- |100px |Waveney Carten (1902–1990) | |- |100px |Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck (1887–1982) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Victor Cazalet (1896–1943) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |David Cecil (1902–1986) | |- |100px |David Cecil (1905–1981) |'''Portraits''': Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |William Chappell (1907–1994) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Nina Chavchavadze (1901–1974) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Edward Chichester (1903–1975) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |90px |Sheila Chisholm (1895–1969) | |- |100px |Diana Churchill (1909–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |John Spencer-Churchill (1897–1972) |'''Portraits''': 1934, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Camille Clifford (1885–1971) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Sibyl Colefax (1874–1950) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Ed Spain in ''The Blessing'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Diana Cooper (1892–1986) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Mrs. Stitch, Evelyn Waugh novels Lady Leone in ''Don't Tell Alfred'' by Nancy Mitford Lady Artemis Hooper in ''Aaron's Rod'' by D.H. Lawrence Ruby, Lady Maclean in ''The Love and Envied'' by Enid Bagnold Lady Queenie Paulle in ''The Pretty Lady'' by Arnold Bennett<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924">{{cite journal|title=Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt – 19 Sep 1924, Fri • Page 19|journal=The Bridgeport Telegram|date=1924|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577191/the_bridgeport_telegram/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Duff Cooper (1890–1954) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Gladys Cooper (1888–1971) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924" /> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> '''Portraits''': Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Noël Coward (1899–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Max Pilgrim in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- | |Frederick Heyworth Cripps (1885–1977) |'''Portraits''': 1938, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Violet Cripps (1891–1983) |'''Portraits''': 1938, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |C. R. M. F. Cruttwell (1887–1941) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- | |Alexandra Curzon (1904–1995) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |Cynthia Curzon (1898–1933) | |- |100px |Georgiana Curzon (1910–1976) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Irene Curzon (1896–1966) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |Mary Curzon (1887–1962) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Peregrine Cust (1899–1978) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Hugh Dalton (1887–1962) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |- |100px |Brenda Dean Paul (1907–1959) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online">{{cite web|title=Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts|url=http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/3141178/2/2016_PHP_PhD_Hallam_C.pdf|website=LSHTM Research Online|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> |- | |Napper Dean Paul (1904–1972) |'''Books''': ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> |- |100px |Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Elizabeth Douglas-Scott-Montagu (1909–2002) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Tom Driberg (1905–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |John Drury-Lowe (1905–1960) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Gerald du Maurier (1873–1934) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- | |Alfred Duggan (1903–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Hubert Duggan (1904–1943) |'''Fictional characters''': Charles Stringham in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Dola Dunsmuir (1903–1966) | |- |95px |Anthony Eden (1897–1977) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Edward Elgar (1857–1934) |'''Portraits''': Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Lily Elsie (1886–1962) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Baba d'Erlanger (1901–1945) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Mimi d'Erlanger (1874–1959) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''' Countess Flor di Folio in ''Serena Blandish'' by Enid Bagnold '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Hamish St. Clair Erskine (1909–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': ''Highland Fling'' by Nancy Mitford Sir Roderick "Bobby" Bobbin in ''Christmas Pudding'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Gwen Farrar (1899–1944) | |- |100px |Daisy Fellowes (1902–1945) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon (1891–1991) | |- |100px |Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891–1992) |'''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Daphne Fielding (1904–1997) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1940, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Michael Foot (1913–2010) |'''Portraits''': 1948, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |E. M. Forster (1879–1970) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Harry Fox-Strangways (1905–1964) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Maxine Freeman-Thomas (1901–1984) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- | |Essex French (1907–1996) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Valerie French (1909–1997) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Anthea Gamble (1906–1960) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> |- |100px |Patrick Gamble (1904–1956) | |- |100px |Evelyn Gardner (1903–1994) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Brenda Last in ''A Handful of Dust'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Edward Gathorne-Hardy (1901–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> |- |100px |Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973) | |- |100px |Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Serena Blandish'' by Enid Bagnold |- |100px |Douglas Goldring (1887–1960) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Victor Gollancz (1893–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alastair Graham (1904–1982) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Lord Sebastian Flyte in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Robert Graves (1895–1985) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Henry Green (1905–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Graham Greene (1904–1991) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Terence Greenidge (1902–1970) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- | |Ivor Guest (1903–1967) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Aileen Guinness (1904–1999) | |- |100px |Bryan Guinness (1905–1992) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> |- |100px |Loel Guinness (1906–1988) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927">{{cite journal|title=Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party – 16 Jul 1927, Sat • Page 33|journal=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=1927|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6009910/lady_bridget_parsons_one_of_the/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Maureen Guinness (1907–1998) | |- |100px |Meraud Guinness (1904–1993) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995) |'''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Walter Guinness (1880–1944) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Claud Hamilton (1889–1975) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Nina Hamnett (1890–1965) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Doris Harcourt (1900–1981) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |Allanah Harper (1904–1992) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Pamela Harriman (1920–1997) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Roy Harrod (1900–1978) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- |100px |Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |L. P. Hartley (1895–1972) | |- |100px |Norman Hartnell (1901–1979) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Gavin Henderson (1902–1977) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |David Herbert (1908–1995) | |- |100px |Sidney Herbert (1906–1969) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |John Heygate (1903–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': John Beaver in ''A Handful of Dust'' by Evelyn Waugh Sir Piers Tofield in ''Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'' by Henry Williamson |- |100px |Arden Hilliard (1904–1976) | |- |100px |Quintin Hogg (1907–2001) |'''Portraits''': 1948, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Inez Holden (1903–1974) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Wanda Holden (1911–1956) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- | |Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Christopher Hollis (1902–1977) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- | |David Horner (1900–1983) | |- |100px |Brian Howard (1905–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> '''Fictional characters''' Anthony Blanche in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh Donald Butterboy in ''The Roaring Queen'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> |- | |Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |William Howard (1902–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Derek Jackson (1906–1982) | |- |100px |Audrey James (1902–1968) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- | |Edward James (1907–1984) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Julia James (1890–1964) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Arthur Jeffress (1905–1961) |'''Books''': Alec Waugh, ''A Year to Remember, A Reminiscence of 1931'' Bloomsbury Reader, 1975 D.J. Taylor, ''Bright Young People - The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007 John Montgomery, ''The Twenties'', George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1970 '''Portraits''': Graham Sutherland, 1954 Ida Kar, 1959 |- |100px |Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Augustus John (1878–1961) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1949, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Baby Jungman (1907–2010) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Zita Jungman (1904–2006) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Marriage of a "Bright Young Person"<ref name="The Guardian 1929">{{cite journal|title=Marriage of a "Bright Young Person". – 30 Jan 1929, Wed • Page 10|journal=The Guardian|date=1929|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583142/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Barbara Ker-Seymer (1905–1993) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Nelson Keys (1886–1939) |'''Newspaper articles''': Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928">{{cite journal|title=Eminent Victorians – 23 May 1928, Wed • Page 19|journal=The Guardian|date=1928|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583065/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |George Kinnoull (1902–1938) |'''Newspaper articles''': Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience<ref name="The Baltimore Sun 1929">{{cite journal|title=Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience – 15 Sep 1929, Sun • Page 72|journal=The Baltimore Sun|date=1929|page=72|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16576191/the_baltimore_sun/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- | |Philip Leyland Kindersley (1907–1995) |'''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897–1958) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Constant Lambert (1905–1951) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Hugh Moreland in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- | |Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Elissa Landi (1904–1948) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- | |George Lascelles (1923–2011) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Charles Laughton (1899–1962) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |James Laver (1899–1975) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |James Lees-Milne (1908–1997) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Albert Gates in ''Highland Fling'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) |'''Fictional characters''': J G Quiggin in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Serge Lifar (1905–1986) |'''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |John "The Widow" Lloyd (1900–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Anita Loos (1889–1981) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Tilly Losch (1903–1975) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Lady Dorothy Lygon (1912–2001) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Lady Cordelia Flyte in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Hugh Lygon (1904–1936) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Fictional characters''': Lord Sebastian Flyte in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Lady Lettice Lygon (1906–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Lady Mary Lygon (1910–1982) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Lady Sibell Lygon (1907–2005) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |William Lygon (1903–1979) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Julian MacLaren-Ross (1912–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': X. Trapnel in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Ethel Mannin (1900–1984) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Reginald Manningham-Buller (1905–1980) |'''Fictional characters''': Kenneth Widmerpool in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- | |Edward Marjoribanks (1900–1932) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Frances Marshall (1900–2004) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Rita Martin (1875–1958) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963) |'''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Harry Melville (1908–2000) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Anne Messel (1902–1992) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Oliver Messel (1904–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Kate Meyrick (1875–1933) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters:'''

Ma Mayfield in ''A Handful of Dust'' and ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shore|first=H|date=2013|title='Constable dances with instructress': the police and the Queen of Nightclubs in inter-war London|url=http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/124/1/SocialHistoryConstable.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128164719/http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/124/1/SocialHistoryConstable.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-28 |access-date=24 January 2021|website=Leeds Beckett Repository, Leeds Beckett University}}</ref> '''Newspaper articles''': Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience<ref name="The Baltimore Sun 1929" /> |- |100px |Florence Mills (1896–1927) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |David Mitford (1878–1958) |'''Fictional characters''': General Murgatroyd in ''Highland Fling'' by Nancy Mitford Uncle Matthew in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Deborah Mitford (1920–2014) |'''Fictional characters''': Northey Mackintosh in ''Don't Tell Alfred'' by Nancy Mitford Linda Radlett in ''Love in a Cold Climate'' by Nancy Mitford Linda Radlett in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Diana Mitford (1910–2003) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience<ref name="The Baltimore Sun 1929" /> |- |100px |Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Jassy Radlett in ''Love in a Cold Climate'' by Nancy Mitford Jassy Radlett in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Grace Marquise de Valhubert in ''Don't Tell Alfred'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Lord Rennell's Son Engaged<ref name="The Guardian 1933">{{cite journal|title=Lord Rennell's Son Engaged – 27 Jul 1933, Thu • Page 10|journal=The Guardian|date=1933|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16583038/the_guardian/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Pamela Mitford (1907–1994) | |- |100px |Tom Mitford (1909–1945) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Unity Mitford (1914–1948) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Eugenia Malmains in ''Wigs on the Green'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- | |Ivan Moffat (1918–2002) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Gwen Mond (d. 1982) |'''Portraits''': 1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Henry Mond (1898–1949) |'''Portraits''': 1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Evan Morgan (1893–1949) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Gloria Morgan (1904–1965) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Thelma Morgan (1904–1970) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Raymond Mortimer (1895–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience<ref name="The Baltimore Sun 1929" /> '''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" />

|- |100px |Edwina Mountbatten (1901–1960) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937">{{cite journal|title=Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society – 10 Jan 1937, Sun • Page 95|journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1937|page=95|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577735/the_philadelphia_inquirer/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |George Mountbatten (1892–1938) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Irene Mountbatten (1890–1956) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Louis Mountbatten (1900–1979) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Nadejda Mountbatten (1896–1963) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |Herbert Mundin (1898–1939) |'''Newspaper articles''': Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928" /> |- |100px |Basil Murray (1902–1937) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Jasper Aspect in ''Wigs on the Green'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Anna Neagle (1904–1986) |'''Portraits''': 1937, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Richard Henry Brinsley Norton (1892–1954) |'''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Ivor Novello (1893–1951) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Serge Obolensky (1890–1978) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Mark Ogilvy-Grant (1905–1969) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Fictional characters''': Sir Ivor King in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford |- |100px |Nina Ogilvy-Grant (1906–1969) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Denise Orme (1885–1960) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |George Orwell (1903–1950) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Erridge (Earl of Warminster) in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Frank Pakenham (1905–2001) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Erridge (Earl of Warminster) in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Pansy Pakenham (1904–1999) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Richard Pares (1902–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Dorothea Parry (1876–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Gwen Parry (1878–1959) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Bridget Parsons (1907–1972) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Desmond Parsons (1910–1937) | |- |100px |Michael Parsons (1906–1979) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Ralph Partridge (1894–1960) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Kathleen Pelham Burn (1887–1966) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Roland Penrose (1900–1984) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |David Plunket Greene (1904–1941) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> '''Fictional characters''': ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Olivia Plunket Greene (1907–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Hon. Agatha Runcible in ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh ''A Little Learning'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Richard Plunket Greene (1901–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''' ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Poldowski (1879–1932) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> Society in London<ref name="The Palm Beach Post" /> |- |100px |Elizabeth Ponsonby (1900–1940) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940">{{cite journal|title=Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party – 15 Sep 1940, Sun • Page 43|journal=The Minneapolis Star|date=1940|page=43|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16576531/the_minneapolis_star/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> Society in London<ref name="The Palm Beach Post">{{cite journal|title=Society in London – 28 Feb 1929, Thu • Page 7|journal=The Palm Beach Post|date=1929|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16577095/the_palm_beach_post/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> |- |100px |Loelia Ponsonby (1902–1993) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- | |Matthew Ponsonby (1904–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Lady Bridget Poulett (1912–1975) |'''Portraits''': 1933, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Anthony Powell (1905–2000) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Violet Powell (1912–2002) |'''Fictional characters''': Isobel Tolland in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |John Pratt (1899–1983) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1934, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Denis Pritt (1887–1972) |'''Fictional characters''': Kenneth Widmerpool in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Peter Quennell (1905–1993) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Mark Members in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Maurice Richardson (1907–1978) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Paul Robeson (1898–1976) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Peter Rodd (1904–1968) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> '''Fictional characters''': Basil Seal in the work of Evelyn Waugh is claimed by the author to have found basis in Peter Rodd.<ref> Evelyn Waugh, a Biography. P.41 Christopher Sykes. Publisher, Collins 1975. </ref> Lady Beech in ''Pigeon Pie'' by Nancy Mitford Christian Talbot in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Lord Rennell's Son Engaged<ref name="The Guardian 1933" /> |- |100px |Oriel Ross (1907–1994) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |John Rothenstein (1901–1992) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Kennerley Rumford (1870–1957) |'''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Elizabeth Russell (1899–1986) |'''Fictional characters''': ''Vile Bodies'' by Evelyn Waugh |- | |Gordon Russell (1892–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alison Ruthven (1902–1974) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton">{{cite book|last1=Beaton|first1=Cecil|title=The Book of Beauty|date=1933|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218224|access-date=17 January 2018}}</ref> '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Peggy Ruthven (1902–1974) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |- |100px |Edward Sackville-West (1901–1965) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': David Warbeck in ''The Pursuit of Love'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Sybil Sassoon |'''Newspaper articles''': Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928" /> |- | |John Seely (1899–1963) | |- | |Patrick Seely (1905–1966) |'''Portraits''': 1935, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Alison Settle (1891–1980) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Norma Shearer (1902–1983) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Lady Harriett Finnian-Shaw in ''The Apes of God'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Georgia Sitwell (1906–1980) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Lord Osmund Finnian-Shaw in ''The Apes of God'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Lord Phoebus Finnian-Shaw in ''The Apes of God'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- | |Terence Skeffington-Smyth (1905–1936) | |- | |Barbara Skelton (1916–1996) |'''Fictional characters''': Pamela Flitton in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Eleanor Smith (1902–1945) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928" /> '''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Pamela Smith (1915–1982) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928" /> |- | |C. P. Snow (1905–1980) |'''Fictional characters''': J G Quiggin in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Oscar Solbert (1885–1958) |'''Newspaper articles''': Bright Young People of the Rising Generation<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1924" /> |- |100px |Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1931, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Stephen Spender (1909–1995) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Mark Members in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' by Anthony Powell |- |100px |Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |J. C. Squire (1884–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Jeanne Stourton (1913–1987) |'''Portraits''': 1933, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Alix Strachey (1892–1973) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |John Strachey (1901–1963) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Matthew Plunkett in ''The Apes of God'' by Wyndham Lewis Cedric Furber in ''The Self-Condemned'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> '''Portraits''': 1937, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Lois Sturt (1900–1937) |'''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924" /> British Girl Holds Record as Art Model<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle 1921" /> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> '''Portraits''': 1929, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Napier Sturt (1896–1940) |'''Newspaper articles''': British Girl Holds Record as Art Model<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle 1921">{{cite journal|title=British Girl Holds Record as Art Model – 22 May 1921, Sun • Page 4|journal=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1921|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2612982/hon_lois_ina_sturt_much_painted/|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1891–1943) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1888–1963) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> |- |100px |John Sutro (1903–1985) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> |- | |Christopher Sykes (1907–1986) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- | |A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Julian Symons (1912–1994) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Stephen Tallents (1884–1958) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Paul Tanqueray (1905–1941) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |David Tennant (1902–1968) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Blackout of the Hon. Elizabeth's Wild 20-year-party<ref name="The Minneapolis Star 1940" /> Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> '''Portraits''': 1927, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Stephen Tennant (1906–1987) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Lord Sebastian Flyte in ''Brideshead Revisited'' by Evelyn Waugh |- |100px |Ernest Thesiger (1897–1961) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Henry Thynne (1905–1992) |'''Books''': ''Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure'' by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster<ref name="Lancaster" /> '''Portraits''': 1940, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |Dorothy Todd (b. 1883) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Iris Tree (1897–1978) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924" /> |- |100px |Viola Tree (1884–1938) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924" /> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- |100px |Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) |'''Fictional characters''': Lady Montdore in ''Love in a Cold Climate'' by Nancy Mitford<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- |100px |Clarita de Uriburu (1908–1995) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' of Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902–1955) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Hugh Wade (1907–1949) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |William Walton (1902–1983) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Edward Frederick Ward (1907–1987) |'''Portraits''': Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- | |George Ward (1907–1988) |'''Portraits''': Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Barbara Waring (1911–1990) | |- | |Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) | |- |100px |Peter Watson (1908–1956) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alec Waugh (1898–1981) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- | |Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon (1902–1971) |'''Portraits''': 1930, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910–1948) |'''Portraits''': 1934, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Rex Whistler (1905–1944) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Dolly Wilde (1895–1941) |'''Books''': ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> |- |100px |Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) | |- |100px |Harold Wilson (1916–1995) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Alastair Windsor (1914–1943) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942) |'''Portraits''': 1936, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984)<ref name="National Portrait Gallery" /> |- |100px |Edward, Prince of Wales (1894–1972) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Newspaper articles''': Young People Take Big Treasure Hunt<ref name="The Bridgeport Telegram 1924" /> Flaming Youth tries Britain's Patience<ref name="The Baltimore Sun 1929" /> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924">{{cite journal|title=London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts - 06 Sep 1924, Sat • Page 22|journal=Argus-Leader|date=1924|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16575725/argusleader/|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> |- |100px |Frances Wodehouse (1884–1950) |'''Newspaper articles''': Eminent Victorians<ref name="The Guardian 1928" /> |- |100px |P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- |100px |Anna May Wong (1905–1961) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> |- |100px |Edward Wood (1881–1959) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor |- | |Douglas Woodruff (1897–1978) |'''Books''': ''The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends'' by Humphrey Carpenter<ref name="Carpenter" /> |- |100px |Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) |'''Books''': ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton<ref name="Beaton" /> ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor '''Fictional characters''': Mrs Rhoda Hyman in ''The Roaring Queen'' by Wyndham Lewis<ref name="Rintoul" /> |- | |Olivia Wyndham (1897–1967) |'''Books''': ''Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age'' by D.J. Taylor ''Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts''<ref name="LSHTM Research Online" /> '''Newspaper articles''': Mozart Fancy Dress Concert is Picturesque<ref name="Mozart Party"/> London Society's Thrilling All-Night Treasure Hunts<ref name="Argus-Leader 1924" /> |- |100px |Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997) |'''Newspaper articles''': Showing Aside the Jazz Set in English Society<ref name="The Philadelphia Inquirer 1937" /> Amusing Turns Brighten Coming-of-Age Party<ref name="The Winnipeg Tribune 1927" /> |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== * {{cite book | last=Carpenter | first=Humphrey | title=The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends | location=London | publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson | year=1989 | isbn=978-0-29779320-5 }} * {{cite book | last=Green | first=Martin | title=Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918 | location=London | publisher=Constable | year=1977 | isbn=978-0-09461430-7 }} * {{cite book | last=Hollis | first=Christopher | title=Oxford in the Twenties | location=London | publisher=William Heinemann | year=1976 | isbn=978-0-434-34531-1 }} * {{cite book | last=Taylor | first=D.J. | title=Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age | location=New York | publisher=DFarrar, Straus and Giroux | year=2009 | isbn=978-0374116835 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/brightyoungpeopl00tayl }} (U.S edition) ** {{cite book | last=Taylor | first=D.J. | title=Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 | location=London | publisher=Chatto & Windus | year=2007| isbn=978-0701177546}} (British edition)

==External links== {{commons category|Bright Young Things}} * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325123 ''Bright Young Things'' (2003)], IMDb.com; Written and directed by Stephen Fry, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel ''Vile Bodies'' * {{cite web|last= Taylor |first= D.J |url=http://www.djtaylorwriter.co.uk/page10.htm |title=Bright Young People |publisher=djtaylorwriter.co.uk |access-date=2015-04-02}}

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