News Twelve-bedroom Georgian manor house in Somerset where author Eveyln Waugh lived on market for £5.5m A grand Georgian manor where writer Evelyn Waugh lived and died has gone on the market for £5.5m. The author of Vile Bodies, Brideshead Revisited and Sword of Honour bought Combe Florey House in Somerset in 1956 and his family lived there April 22, 2021