#emlyn hughes

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Binkie Beaumont with Angela Baddeley & Emlyn Williams, 1947

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When Princess Anne joined Emlyn Hughes on a Question of Sport | Sport | The Guardian

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Talking about Harold Acton and the club, Emlyn Williams in his autobiography George (1961) said: "He's the Oxford aesthete, [...] he belongs to the Hypocrites' Club with Brian Howard and Robert Byron and Evelyn Waugh."

Robert Byron, who was the resident entertainer singing Victorian music hall, joined because it provided him a haven for like-minded "aesthetes."

Alfred Duggan joined the club to continue to drink after the pubs and bars had closed. Duggan was in his second year at Balliol College and was the son of an alcoholic, on the way to becoming one himself.

Evelyn Waugh introduced Tom Driberg to the club. Driberg remembered "dancing with John F., while Evelyn and another rolled on a sofa with (as one of them said later) their 'tongues licking each other's tonsils'."

Alastair Hugh Graham followed Richard Pares as Waugh's friend of heart. Waugh called him Hamish Lennox in his writings, and said that "[he] had no repugnance to the bottle and we drank deep together. At times he was as gay as any Hypocrite, but there were always hints of the spirit that in later years has made him a recluse." Graham sent Waugh a naked photo of himself, leaning against a rock face, with arms outstretched, buttocks in full view, and with the text explaining the best way to drink wine: "You must tab a peach and peel it, and put it in a finger bowl, and pour the Burgundy over. The flavour is exquisite. With love from Alastair and his poor dead heart."

Handsome, nice mannered, mild in demeanour, Hilliard, at first meeting, conveyed not the smallest suggestion of his capacity for falling into trouble. The variety of ways in which he got on the wrong side of the authorities during his period of residence (prematurely cut short) was both contrarious and phenomenal. He was one of the nicest of men, in certain moods content to live a quiet even humdrum existence; at other times behaving with a minimum of discretion, altogether disregarding the traditional recommendation that, if you can't be good, be careful. [...] A vignette that remains in my mind of this early Balliol period is of being woken up one night to find Hilliard and Ponsonby standing by my bedside. Without a word, one of them held out a brimming glass of sparkling burgundy. I drained it, equally in silence.

Christopher Hollis wrote in his memoirs, Along the Road to Frome, that "the two centres of my social life that remain most vividly in my mind are the Hypocrites' Club and Offal luncheons. The Hypocrites' Club was founded by a number of those who liked the less conventional ways, in refuge from the regular dining clubs such as the Gridiron or Vincent's, which were both too expensive and, in our opinion, too starchy. It consisted of a number of bare, uncarpeted rooms in a couple of houses beyond Christ Church and just short of Folly Bridge."

Hugh Lygon, the third love-interest of Waugh at Oxford, was as hard-drinking and self-destructive as Waugh and Graham. Lygon moved round Oxford like a lost boy. Terence Lucy Greenidge remembered him carrying a teddy bear. Greenidge, while admiring Hugh's classical good looks, charm and elegance, said he was "rather empty." Lygon, along with Robert Byron, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross and Brian Howard, was one of the most sexually active of the Hypocrites. After Waugh published A Little Learning, Harold Acton wrote to him complaining he had revealed his homosexuality, while omitting Byron's, Balfour's, Howard's and Lygon's promiscuities.

Anthony Powell wrote: "Coming from different colleges, we used to lunch or dine several times a week at this inexpensive and ill-furnished club over a bicycle shop near Folly Bridge. The premises, reputed to be Tudor, were certainly very rickety. The membership, equally irregular, was in process of changing from shove-halfpenny playing Bohemians to fancy-dress wearing aesthetes. One of the rowdiest members was Evelyn Waugh, one of the most sophisticated Harold Acton."

E. E. Evans-Pritchard lived an aesthetic and bohemian life, a reaction to the horrors of World War I. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Hypocrites Club. There is a photograph of Evans-Pritchard at a fancy-dress party in which he is in Arab dress looking like T. E. Lawrence.

Anthony Powell's first encounter with Evelyn Waugh was a sighting of him at the Hypocrites sitting on the knee of another member, Christopher Hollis. Waugh later teased Christopher Sykes for not having had a homosexual phase. Though Waugh was friends with Terence Lucy Greenidge and Harold Acton, eccentrics and crazy, romantically he was attracted to fragile, beautiful boys like Alastair Hugh Graham and Richard Pares. After Waugh left Oxford he kept going back, and on 12 November 1924 he accepted a lunch date with John Sutro, that was indeed a surprise party at which Sutro invited all of Waugh's "old friends": Harold Acton, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Hugh Lygon, Robert Byron, Arden Hilliard and Richard Pares. That night Waugh got into Balliol and was let out of a window for having mocked Hilliard and Powell. It was to this visit that Waugh later attributed his "decline" into alcohol.

H. D. Ziman became the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and was in his fourth year when he met Anthony Powell, a freshman.

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Emlyn Hughes.

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I feel like I may have asked this before but I've run out of places to look lol so sorry if I have, but does anyone have any idea where I might find some old episodes (particularly Emlyn Hughes episodes) of A Question of Sport? I've watched all the ones I can find on YouTube and checked a couple of other places but no luck.

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UK 1991

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Emlyn Hughes would have been seventy today. He was the living embodiment of Liverpool Football Club in a way no other player has been before or since. I met him once when I was nine and I still can't remember meeting a nicer person. It's nearly thirteen years since he was taken from us and he's sorely missed. Best wishes to all his family and friends.

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Farewell to the Anfield Iron, Liverpool’s Tommy Smith, Friend and Foe to Super Leeds – by Rob Atkinson Tommy Smith, Liverpool’s legendary hard man defender and frequently skipper in the sixties and seventies, passed away today aged 74.

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Oc Superlatives tag game

I was tagged by @catharticallysarcastic, thank you ^^

Rules: Which of your characters best fit the following descriptions?

Most arrogant: Maybe Mist, Sin, and Karma?

Most humble: Kitan and Jalen. Those boys could stand to have a little more confidence in themselves, though.

Most charming: I guess it depends on your definition of charming. If you mean flirty, then that’s Karma. If you mean good with people, then Hugh is the winner of the title.

Most aggressive: Lierin, without a shadow of a doubt. She’s an angry elf woman with a sword, a chip off her shoulder, and monsters to kill. Honorable mentions for this title include Orion, Ophelia, Mist, Valerian, and sometimes Silver.

Most talkative: Bramble, Arlen, Zephyr, Thistle, Kitan, and Henrietta all love to talk and chat.

Least talkative: Night is the decisive winner of this title. She listens, she watches, but she doesn’t say anything unless it absolutely must be said. Honorable mentions for this title include Lierin, Valerian, and Crow.

Most relatable: Sparrow is the most relatable to me.

Least relatable: Karma, Mist, Crow, Ophelia, and Sin.

Most ambitious: Aaron and Reason. Those two have big plans, and aren’t afraid to drag everyone else into them.

Most easy-going: Reuven and Glenn are both pretty laid back.

Most high-strung: Kitan and Jalen, definitely.

Most pretentious: Karma, Sin, and Mist maybe?

Most cheerful: Bramble, definitely, but Kitan is a close second.

Most patient: Reuven or Hunter would be the winner. Honorable mentions include Night, Silence, Reason, Sky, and Crow.

Most diligent: Wyndulin, The Time Keeper, Emlyn, Aaron, Claude, Jalen, Hunter, and Reason are all very hard working and stay on top of their duties.

 Tagging, but no pressure, @hannahs-ramblings, @writingonesdreams, @helathorloki, @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @writeblrfantasy, @athenixrose, @vermontwrites, @hyba and anyone else who wants to jump in.

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Bob Paisley carrying Emlyn Hughes Fan art via /r/LiverpoolFC

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Binkie Beaumont, the hugely influential yet little-known theatre producer and manager, was born on the 27th of March, 1908.

Though his early origins and family life is unclear, it is thought he was Hughes Griffiths Morgan in London. When he was 2 years old, his mother, Mary Morgan, married William Sugden Beaumont, a timber merchant from Cardiff. Hugh, as he was known, grew up in Cardiff and became known as ‘Binkie,’ which is thought to come from Cardiff slang.

At age 15, Binkie left Penarth Grammar School and went to work at the local Playhouse Theatre then soon became assistant manager at the Prince of Wales theatre in Cardiff.

His theatre career having begun in Cardiff, he moved to work in theatres in London, where he met Irish actor, playwright and theatre agent John Perry, who had been John Gielguld’s lover, but became Beaumont’s long-time partner. (John Perry died in 1995.)

In 1936, Beaumont set up H M Tennent’s with Harry Tennent, starting his successful career as a theatre producer. When Tennent died in 1941, Beaumont, in control of H M Tennent’s, became one of the most powerful theatre producers of the West End for the next 20 years, though he stayed away from the limelight, partly to have more control behind the scenes.

Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont died on the 22nd of March, 1973, aged 64. In his career, he had known and worked with Vivien Leigh, Noel Coward, Ivor Novello (and his partner Bobbie Andrews), Victor Spinetti, Richard Burton, Ingrid Bergman and many more, and had produced the first British productions of ‘West Side Story’ and ‘My Fair Lady’.

Photos via Getty Images and National Portrait Gallery. (By Angus McBean, who also was Welsh and gay, and is of Binkie Beaumont ‘pulling the strings’ of Angela Baddeley and Emlyn Williams, the Welsh and bisexual theatre actor.)

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Princess Anne having the worst time during rehearsals for ‘Its A Royal Knockout’ in 1987

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Full Colour Emlyn Hughes Feature!

The Crunch No. 48, dated 15 December 1979. Starhawk cover by Mike Dorey. DC Thomson

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I aspire to the sheer joy of Emlyn Hughes in the episode of AQoS with Princess Anne when they're somehow winning by a fucking mile.