Background
He is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh, the eldest son of Auberon Waugh, and the brother of Daisy Waugh.
He is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh, the eldest son of Auberon Waugh, and the brother of Daisy Waugh.
He was educated at Taunton School, the University of Manchester and the University of Surrey, where he gained degrees in Music.
He is best known for his biography of the Wittgenstein family (The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War) published in 2009. He is a founding director and Chairman of Xebras Management Limited, the digital media company. He has also served on the boards of Concert Agency, Manygate Management Limited, and of the award winning Travelman Publishing Limited.
He is currently an independent Non-Executive Director of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Alexander Waugh was the chief opera critic of the Mail on Sunday (1990-1991) and of The Evening Standard (1991-1996). His books on music include Classical Music: A New Way of Listening (1995) and Opera: A New Way of Listening (1996).
He reviews non-fiction books regularly for the British press and has contributed cartoons to The Literary Review and The Daily Telegraph. His books Time (1999) and God (2002) use irony and wit to impart a considerable amount of condensed information.
lieutenant was made into 90-minute British Broadcasting Corporation documentary film in 2005.
In 2006 he presented the British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary. Waugh is an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, the belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works of William Shakespeare. He claims to have found surreptitious allusions embedded in 16thand 17th-century works revealing that the name "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym used by Oxford to write the Shakespeare oeuvre.
He is General Editor of the 42-volume scholarly edition, the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, shortly to be published by Oxford University Press, and is a member of International Digital Publishing Forum and of the Academy, Beefsteak and Chelsea Arts Clubs in London. He is a life member of the De Vere Society, and serves as the Honorary President of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition.
