they went on holiday to Ireland. It was after this trip that Graham converted to Roman Catholicism (September 1924). When Graham went to visit his sister and her husband in Kenya in mid-September 1924, the friendship between Graham and Waugh took a step back, but in August 1926, Graham, his mother and Waugh went to Scotland; and on their return, Graham and Waugh went to France together with Richard Plunket Greene. Around this time, Graham, who owned a small printing press and was then apprenticed at the Shakespeare Head Press, printed Waugh's essay P.R.B.: An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847–54. Alastair Hugh Graham was an honorary attaché in Athens between 1927 and 1929, where Waugh visited him for the Christmas holidays. Graham wrote to his friend Claud Cockburn on a number of occasions during this time. In Greece, Graham lived with another attaché, Mark Ogilvie-Grant. In 1929, both were transferred to Cairo with Vivian Cornelius until 1933. During World War II, Graham participated in the Dunkirk evacuation, joined the Royal Observer Corps and was a liaison officer with the US Navy. From 1937 he lived privately – because of his homosexuality – on the Welsh coast, at Plas-y-Wern Lodge, Gilfachrheda, moving subsequently to a house in nearby in New Quay itself. He bought a yacht called The Osprey and was a member of the New Quay Yacht Club, as well as president of the New Quay branch of the RNLI. He was on familiar terms with Dylan Thomas, another New Quay resident, and appeared as a prosecution witness when Capt Richard Killick was accused of attempting to murder Dylan Thomas. He was the original of Lord Cut-Glass in Under Milk Wood. Graham died in Machynlleth Hospital in October 1982 from cancer of the pancreas. References 1904 births 1982 deaths English LGBT people LGBT Roman Catholics Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Younger sons of baronets Deaths from pancreatic cancer Deaths from cancer in Wales 20th-century LGBT people British expatriates in Greece British expatriates in Egypt