Christopher Sykes

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Christopher Hugh Sykes was born on 17 November 1907 and died on 8 December 1986. He was an English author of the 20th century. Born into a wealthy north of England land owning family, he was the second son of the diplomatist, Sir Mark Sykes.

Sykes is especially remembered for his biography of his friend, Evelyn Waugh. Christopher Hugh Sykes was invested as a Fellow of the Royal L. Society (FRLS). He served in the Second World War with the British Army.

[edit] Marriage and child

He married Camilla Georgiana Russell, daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell and Evelyn Corothea Temple Moore, on 25 October 1936.