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Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 190419 August 1936) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He was a friend of Waugh's at Oxford (A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club (Lygon was also the president of the club), along with their contemporary Robert Byron, Murray Andrew McLean and the Plunket Greene brothers, Richard and David. David Plunket Greene was a good friend of Hugh Lygon.
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