The brilliant satirical novelist, Evelyn Waugh, was a pupil at Heath Mount from 1910-17.  In his last year he established and edited The Cynic school magazine. 

Waugh completed his education at Lancing College and Hertford College Oxford.  He briefly became a schoolmaster before taking up writing full-time as a novelist, journalist, travel-writer and book reviewer. His most famous works include Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisted and  A Handful of Dust.