Auberon Waugh (61), the writer, journalist and editor, has died suddenly in his sleep, it was announced yesterday. His wife, Lady Teresa Waugh, said her husband had a heart condition and had died at their home in Somerset on Tuesday night, writes Rachel Donnelly, in London.
Waugh, son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh whose trilogy on military conflict, Sword of Honour, and novel depicting British upper-class life, Brideshead Revisited, were adapted for television, had been unwell for some time with a weak heart. Lady Teresa described her husband as a "wonderful" man.
Among those paying tribute to Waugh, who was editor-in-chief at the Literary Review magazine, was Mr Charles Moore, his editor at the Daily Telegraph, where he wrote a column over the past 10 years.
Mr Moore said the writer and satirist was one of the best journalists he had known: "Bron Waugh was the finest journalist of his generation and also the bravest." Waugh also wrote for the Sunday Telegraph, the Mirror, the Spectator, Private Eye and the Catholic Herald.