English socialite, teacher and writer Richard Plunket Greene was BOTD in 1901. Born in London to a musical family, his father was a professional singer and his grandfather the composer Hubert Parry. He and his younger brother David attended Oxford University, where they befriended Evelyn Waugh. Waugh wrote later that he fell in love with the entire Plunket Greene family, though of necessity focused his affections on “the only appropriate” member, younger sister Olivia. The exact nature of Waugh’s and Richard’s relationship is unclear, though Waugh’s homoerotic obsession with the Plunket Greene brothers inspired the plot of his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited. In the 1920s, the Plunket Greenes became prominent members of the aristocratic social circle known as the Bright Young Things, socialising with their cousin Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Cecil Beaton, Robert Byron, Tom Driberg, Hamish St. Clair-Erskine, L. P. Hartley, Gavin Henderson, Brian Howard, James Lees-Milne, Nancy and Tom Mitford, Edith and Osbert Sitwell and Stephen Tennant. Known for his eccentric dress sense, pirate earrings, and love of neckties, Richard developed an interest in motor racing, and travelled regularly to New York to visit jazz clubs during the Harlem Renaissance. He settled into a heterosexual life, becoming a school teacher and marrying Elizabeth Russell in 1926, with whom he had a son. He and Elizabeth co-wrote the 1932 novel Where Ignorance is Bliss, followed by his self-authored novels The Bandits and Eleven-Thirty Till Twelve, which were not a success. Wisely abandoning the pen, he served in the Royal Navy during World War Two, divorcing Elizabeth in 1943. After the war he remarried and had a second son, and moved to Devon where he became a real estate agent. He disappeared from public life until the posthumous publication of Waugh’s diaries in 1976, and gave several interviews about his memories of their friendship. He died in 1978, aged 76.