314:, a deception department set up in Cairo in March 1941. After leaving the "A" Force, he was secretly infiltrated into enemy-occupied Greece. He was taken off Greece by boat and returned by submarine in September 1941. Among other 200 evaders in the Taygetos, he lived under conditions of semi-starvation while trying to escape through the mountains, walking under the hot Grecian sun by day and in freezing conditions by night. Around 1943 he was again prisoner of a War Camp in Austria, and escaped again. He was recaptured after three weeks and transferred in a prisoners camp in Germany. From 1947 to 1969 he was with the Information Department at the Greek Embassy in London.
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Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant,
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visited them (he was a very close friend of Graham) and he was "disgusted by the life they led in Greece". In 1929 he was transferred in Cairo, Egypt, with Graham and Vivian
Cornelius. Waugh and his wife
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Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
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He spent his last years at 71 Kew Green, Kew, a place he called Vocal Lodge, and where Nancy
Mitford was often a guest and where she worked on the script of the
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Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. The Isabel of Essex volume
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Howard, Michael; Hinsley, Francis Harry (26 October 1990). British
Intelligence in the Second World War: Strategic Deception. Cambridge University Press.
203:, in Banffshire, home of Nina Seafield, became one of the retreats of the Bright Young Things. Among the friends who joined their parties were
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Hillhouse Methven Cox. His love of plants may in part have been inherited from his father, who worked in the Botany Department of the
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260:, who lived in Cairo with her step-father, Sir Peter Strickland, general officer commanding. When Cresswell married
280:(1928). For Fermor the rucksack, "weathered and faded by Macedonian suns," was a valuable relic, "rife with mana."
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Mark Ogilvie-Grant was also a botanist and in 1940 he contributed an essay,
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In 1959 John Murray distributed in Great Britain, Helani Vlachos's book
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Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940
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Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester
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Massue Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry (1994).
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society XLIV, May 1969
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Nina Caroline Studley-Herbert, 12th Countess of Seafield
195:, another Bright Young Thing, daughter of his uncle,
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Christmas Pudding; Illustrated by Mark Ogilvie-Grant
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography
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Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
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321:, translated into English by Mark Ogilvie-Grant.
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1033:. Publisher's Circular Limited. 1959. p. 36
718:Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing
592:Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction
681:DiBattista, Maria; Wittman, Emily O. (2014).
336:Mark Ogilvie-Grant died on 13 February 1969.
49:and Maud Louisa Pechell, daughter of Admiral
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901:"Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society"
184:. He was a member of the "Georgeoisie" with
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687:. Cambridge University Press. p. 80.
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219:. He illustrated Mitford's books,
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978:"Captain Mark Ogilvie-Grant"
752:Wilson, John Howard (1996).
558:. Random House. p. 44.
521:. John Murray. p. 101.
448:. Random House. p. 27.
47:William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
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552:Hastings, Selina (2012).
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330:Kind Hearts and Coronets
285:Plants and Western Crete
209:Hamish St. Clair-Erskine
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199:. For this reason,
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