David Plunket Greene

David Plunket Greene (1904-1941), together with his brother Richard and his sister Olivia, was part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel Vile Bodies to Evelyn Waugh, a family friend.

David Plunket Greene was born on 19 November 1904, the son of Harry Plunket Greene and Gwendoline Maud Parry.

He attended West Downs School, Harrow School and then Oxford University where his brother Richard Plunket Greene was a very good friend of Evelyn Waugh. The 1930 novel Vile Bodies, satirising the Bright Young Things, the decadent young London society between World War I and World War II, is partly inspired by the Plunket Greene family. He was a member of the Hypocrites' Club. When in May 1925 the authorities ordered the closure of the Hypocrites club, David Plunket Greene rented the former premises of the club. James Knox described David and his brother Richard as "wildly irresponsible pair who had never experienced any form of parental control".

At Oxford Plunket Greene was part of the Railway Club, which included: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, David Plunket Greene, Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, Brian Howard, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, John Drury-Lowe.

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