Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986)

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1. Osbert Lancaster

   Author of Classical Landscape with Figures, The Littlehampton Bequest, Facades and faces;

2. Nikolaus Pevsner

   Author of An Outline of European Architecture, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition, London, except the cities of London and Westminster (Buildings of England series;no.6)

3. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of Put Out More Flags, When the Going Was Good, A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

4. Ronald Searle

   Author of Slightly Foxed but Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting, The Illustrated Winespeak, The St Trinian's story

5. H. V. Morton

   Author of In Search of England, In Search of Scotland, In Search of London

6. John Betjeman

   Author of Collected Poems, Summoned by Bells, First and Last Loves

7. Rose Macaulay

   Author of Told by an Idiot, Personal Pleasures, They were defeated

8. Mark Girouard

   Author of Life in the English country house: a social and architectural history, The Victorian Country House, The English Town: A History of Urban Life

9. Michael Innes

   Author of Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet, revenge!, The Open House

10. A. G. Macdonell

    Author of England, Their England, The Autobiography of a Cad (Prion Humour Classics)

11. R.S. Surtees

    Author of Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Ask Mamma, Plain or Ringlets?

12. Norman Thelwell

    Author of Thelwell Country, Play It as It Lies: Thelwell's Golfing Manual, A Place of Your Own

13. Nancy Mitford

    Author of Love in a Cold Climate, Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English, A Talent to Annoy: Essays, Articles and Reviews, 1929-68

14. P. G. Wodehouse

    Author of Jeeves in the Offing, Sunset at Blandings, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

15. Caryl Brahms

    Author of No Bed for Bacon, A Bullet in the Ballet, Casino for Sale (Hogarth Fiction)

16. J.B. Morton

    Author of The Best of Beachcomber, Beachcomber: The Works of JB Morton

17. C. Northcote Parkinson

    Author of In-laws and Outlaws, Mrs. Parkinson's Law

18. Angela Thirkell

    Author of The Brandons, August Folly

19. Rudyard Kipling

    Author of Plain Tales from the Hills, A Choice of Kipling's Verse, Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown

20. Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners

    Author of First Childhood, A Distant Prospect