David Plunket Greene

David Plunket Greene (19 November 1904 – 24 February 1941), together with his brother Richard and sister Olivia, was part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel Vile Bodies to Evelyn Waugh, a family friend.

[1] James Knox described David and his elder brother Richard as a "wildly irresponsible pair who had never experienced any form of parental control".

[8] The Plunket Greene siblings, Richard, Olivia and David, went often to New York City, to have their trousers cut properly and to frequent the Harlem Renaissance clubs.

[1] She played a leading role in the Bright Young Things, in the company of her friends Sylvia Ashley and Elizabeth Ponsonby, this latter David's cousin.

[9] The marriage was short lived,[10] they divorced in October 1928, and already in May 1929 Babe Plunket Greene was announcing her engagement to Count Anthony de Bosdari, former fiancé of actress Tallulah Bankhead.

Richard Plunket Greene, first from the left, Olivia Plunket Greene, second from left, David Plunket Greene, holding the dog, Terence Lucy Greenidge , smoking, second from right, Elizabeth Frances Russell, first from the right, Evelyn Waugh, sitting down
Railway Club at Oxford, conceived by John Sutro , dominated by Harold Acton . Left to right, back: Henry Yorke , Roy Harrod , Henry 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 , Johnny Drury-Lowe ; front: porters