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Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967), known as Daisy Waugh, is an English journalist, travel writer, novelist and television presenter. She has also worked as a restaurant critic and as an agony aunt for ''The Independent''. On television, she has presented Channel 4's ''Travelog'' show and is also a contributor to BBC Radio 4. ==Early life== A member of a literary dynasty, Waugh is the second daughter of the writer and journalist Auberon Waugh, by his marriage in 1961 to the novelist and translator Lady Teresa Onslow, daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow.〔(Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh ) at geneall.net, accessed 27 May 2010〕 Her elder sister is Margaret Sophia Laura (born 1962), while her brothers are Alexander Evelyn Michael (born 1963, a writer on music) and Nathaniel Thomas Biafra (born 1968). They are grandchildren of the author Evelyn Waugh and great-grandchildren of the publisher and literary critic Arthur Waugh, and the four are reported to have remained close.〔Sophie Black, 'A Family Affair: We see the outside world as the enemy' in ''The Independent'' dated 25 March 2002〕 Through her great-grandfather Aubrey Herbert, a British diplomat who was twice offered the throne of Albania,〔Margaret Fitzherbert, ''The man who was Greenmantle: A biography of Aubrey Herbert'' (London: John Murray, 1983)〕 Waugh is descended from the Earls of Carnarvon and William the Conqueror.〔(Conqueror 38 ) at william1.co.uk, accessed 27 May 2010〕 Waugh grew up from the age of four at Combe Florey House, in Somerset,〔Daisy Waugh, ''(The Road to Somerset )'' in ''The Daily Mail'' dated 3 May 2005, online at dailymail.co.uk, accessed 26 May 2010〕 of which she has written: "It's an impressive-looking place: big and quite grand and pleasingly symmetrical, set at the top of a long, winding drive, with an Elizabethan gatehouse at the bottom and a small lake with a private island halfway up... With forbidden attics and vast cellars chock-a-block with hidden treasures, there was never any need for a nursery... My memories are of a house, underheated (to put it mildly), but always full of noisy cousins and glamorous, clever people, eating well and talking quickly."〔Daisy Waugh, ''(Waugh home up for sale )'' in ''The Sunday Times'' dated 13 April 2008, online〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daisy Waugh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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