English socialite and musician David Plunket Greene was BOTD in 1904. Born in London to a musical family, his father was a professional singer and his grandfather the composer Hubert Parry. He and his eldest brother Richard 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. An enthusiastic if moderately talented musician, he travelled regularly to New York to visit jazz clubs during the Harlem Renaissance. He married fellow aristocrat Marguerite McGustie in 1926, divorcing three years later, no doubt due to his being a notorious homosexual. He committed suicide in 1941, aged 36. He and his siblings featured prominently in Waugh’s diaries, first published after Waugh’s death in 1976.