List of Jeeves characters

The following is an incomplete list of the fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

Anatole

Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn.[1]

Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in "Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers postponed a Mediterranean trip because Anatole was ill with influenza in "The Spot of Art". Anatole is described as being temperamental, and in Right Ho, Jeeves he nearly resigns when several people at the dinner table push his food away.[2]

Many characters esteem Anatole's cooking and try to hire him away from the Travers household, including Jane Snettisham ("The Love That Purifies"), Sir Watkyn Bassett (The Code of the Woosters), and Mrs. Trotter (Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit). In Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie comments that Anatole suffers from mal au foie (liver problems) and is apt to discuss the subject at length.[3]

Rosie M. Banks

Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being an author who writes romance novels. She also appears in Drones Club stories outside the Jeeves canon.

Madeline Bassett

Madeline Bassett is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. She is the daughter of Sir Watkyn Bassett and is a rather mushy, sentimental girl.

Watkyn Bassett

Sir Watkyn Bassett, CBE, is a fictional character who appears in two Jeeves novels. He is the father of Madeline Bassett and the uncle and guardian of Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.[4] Watkyn is described as a small man who makes up for his height by wearing clothes that are striking in appearance, including a prismatic checked suit in The Code of the Woosters and a purple dressing-gown covered with yellow frogs in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. He wears a pince-nez. When he first meets Bertie Wooster, Sir Watkyn is the magistrate at Bosher Street Police Court. Shortly afterward, he inherits a great deal of money from a distant relative and retires to live in Totleigh Towers, where he is a Justice of the Peace.[5]

As a magistrate, Bassett fined Bertie £5 for stealing a policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night, and Bertie thinks that the fortune Sir Watkyn inherited actually derived from pocketing fines while a magistrate. Sir Watkyn is a noted collector of antique silver, and his collection rivals that of Bertie's uncle, Tom Travers. Each tries to obtain the silver cow-creamer in The Code of the Woosters. In that novel, it is mentioned that Sir Watkyn is engaged to a widow named Mrs. Wintergreen. She is the aunt of Sir Watkyn's friend, Roderick Spode, who is often at Totleigh Towers.[6] However, she is not mentioned again. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, he obtains a black amber statuette.

In the Jeeves and Wooster television series adapted from Wodehouse's stories, Sir Watkyn is Florence Craye's uncle, which was not true in the original Jeeves canon.

Bill Belfry, 9th Earl of Rowcester

Bill Belfry, 9th Earl of Rowcester (pronounced "roaster"), is a fictional character introduced in the novel Ring for Jeeves, in which he is the impoverished owner of the near-derelict Rowcester Abbey in Southmoltonshire. He has a sister, Monica "Moke" Carmoyle, and was a Commando in WWII.[7]

In post-WWII Britain, Jeeves temporarily becomes valet to Lord Rowcester whilst Bertie Wooster is away at a school to teach the wealthy classes how to survive in the wake of social revolution. Lord Rowcester, engaged to be married to Jill Wyvern, wishes to find means of earning money to repair his home and thus sell it off to live a happy married life. At the suggestion of Jeeves, Bill sets up as a bookmaker at horse races under the title of Honest Patch Perkins.[8]

Charles "Biffy" Biffen

Charles Edward "Biffy" Biffen is a fictional character who appears in the Jeeves short story, "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy". An absent-minded friend of Bertie Wooster, Biffy is engaged to a woman named Mabel, who is Jeeves's niece.[9]

Rupert Bingley

Rupert Bingley, also known as Brinkley, is a recurring fictional character who appears in two Jeeves novels. He is a smallish man who is thin in his first appearance but has become plump by his second appearance. In his first appearance in Thank You, Jeeves, he is a valet called Brinkley. He has extreme left-wing views and threatens Bertie Wooster.[10] In Much Obliged, Jeeves, Jeeves informs Bertie that his name is Bingley and not Brinkley. By the time of this novel, Bingley has inherited a large sum of money and retired from being a valet. His views become extremely right-wing after he becomes a man of property. He resorts to theft and blackmail to increase his wealth. Bingley is a member of the Junior Ganymede Club and retains his membership after retiring.[11]

As a valet, he was employed at different times by Ginger Winship, L. P. Runkle, and Bertie Wooster.[12]

Mr Blumenfeld

Blumenfeld is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. His name first appears as "Blumenfield" in "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril" (in The Inimitable Jeeves) but is later "Blumenfeld" in "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" (in Very Good, Jeeves).[13] He is an American theatrical manager with a young son. Neither of their first names are stated, though Bertie Wooster jokingly calls Blumenfeld's unfriendly son "Sidney the Sunbeam".[14]

Blumenfeld was inspired by Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, a dictatorial American theatrical producer who produced the 1916 musical Miss Springtime, which Wodehouse contributed to as lyricist. Erlanger employed a twelve-year-old boy to second-guess his creative judgments, on the grounds that this was the mental age of the average Broadway audience; this is similar to Blumenfeld, who relies on the opinions of his twelve-year-old son for the same reason.[15]

Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng

Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. The niece and ward of Sir Watkyn Bassett, she initially lives with him in Totleigh Towers. She is short and has blue eyes.[16] She wears a wind-swept hairstyle,[17] and has an Aberdeen terrier named Bartholomew. Stiffy often gets bright ideas that end up making trouble for others, and she is not above using blackmail to induce Bertie Wooster to do errands for her.[18]

In The Code of the Woosters, she is engaged to the Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker. She appears with Harold Pinker in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and they have married by Much Obliged, Jeeves.[16]

G. D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright

G. D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright is a recurring fictional character in two Jeeves novels, being an intermittent but jealous fiancé of Florence Craye and thus a menacing "rival" of Florence's ex-"fiancé" Bertie Wooster (who does not actually want to marry Florence). A member of the Drones Club, Stilton is a hulking chap with a large head compared to a pumpkin and a face that looks like "a slab of pink dough".[19] Stilton went to private school, Eton and Oxford with Bertie.[20] He was Captain of the Boats at Eton and rowed four years for Oxford.

In Joy in the Morning, Stilton was the local policeman at Aunt Agatha's rural village Steeple Bumpleigh and was engaged to Florence Craye who was in residence there. In this novel, Stilton and Florence temporarily end their engagement because she does not want him to be a policeman. They reconcile after Stilton resigns from the police force when the local Justice of the Peace refuses to let him make an arrest. In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, the engagement between Stilton and Florence is threatened because Stilton refuses to grow a moustache and Florence goes to a night club with Bertie. Stilton leaves Florence for good and becomes romantically interested in the novelist Daphne Dolores Morehead.[21]

Stilton Cheesewright's nickname is probably derived from Stilton cheese.

Marmaduke, 5th Baron "Chuffy" Chuffnell

Marmaduke, Lord Chuffnell, nicknamed Chuffy, is a fictional character in the Jeeves novel, Thank You, Jeeves. He went to private school, Eton and Oxford with Bertie Wooster.[22] Chuffy is a Drones Club member. He becomes engaged to Pauline Stoker, and they have married by Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[23]

Chuffy's aunt, Myrtle, Dowager Lady Chuffnell, appears in Thank You, Jeeves. She has a young son, Seabury, and is romantically involved with Sir Roderick Glossop. Her engagement to Glossop is threatened but saved in "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".[24]

Clementina

Clementina is a fictional character in the Jeeves short story, "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina". She is Bobbie Wickham's cousin.[25]

Lady Florence Craye

Lady Florence Craye is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the intellectual and serious daughter of Percy Craye, Lord Worplesdon.

Percival "Percy" Craye, Earl of Worplesdon

Percival "Percy" Craye (later Earl of Worplesdon) is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He has a daughter, Florence Craye, and a son, Edwin Craye. Lord Worplesdon is also the guardian of Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood.[26] He is a former employer of Jeeves,[27] and later returns to Jeeves for advice.[28] When stirred by a strong emotion, Worplesdon has a tendency to start shouting "What? What? What?" repeatedly.[29]

He was nearly Agatha Gregson's first husband, though Agatha broke the engagement after he was thrown out of a Covent Garden ball and taken to Vine Street Police Station.[30] After gaining the title Lord Worplesdon, he becomes her second husband and Bertie's Uncle Percy. He once chased the fifteen-year-old Bertie "for five miles across difficult terrain" with a hunting crop, after finding him smoking one of his special cigars.[27] Worplesdon is later amused by the memory and gives one of his cigars to Bertie.[31]

Lord Worplesdon was mentioned in the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge", in which it is stated that he was once thrown out of a music hall with Bertie Wooster's Uncle Willoughby.[32] It is also said in this story that he sat down to breakfast one morning, cried "Eggs! Eggs! Damn all eggs!", and ran out of his house, "never again to return to the bosom of his family" – this incident is never referenced again, however.[27] He later appears in Joy in the Morning, in which he wants to have a clandestine meeting with an American businessman, Chichester Clam. In the same novel, Nobby Hopwood obtains her guardian's permission to marry Boko Fittleworth.

An early version of the character appeared in the Reggie Pepper story, "Disentangling Old Percy", in which he is not named but has a son named Percy.

Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle

Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is a teetotaler and studies newts.

George "Boko" Fittleworth

George Webster "Boko" Fittleworth is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, being an author with a unique dress sense, a member of the Drones Club, and a good friend of Bertie Wooster. In Joy in the Morning, even the normally unflappable Jeeves was strongly affected at the sight of Boko, who dresses "like a tramp cyclist". According to Bertie, after Jeeves first saw him, Jeeves winced and tottered off to the kitchen, probably to pull himself together with cooking sherry. Boko is engaged to Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood. He once shared a flat with Harold "Ginger" Winship and employed Magnolia Glendennon as his stenographer, as mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves.[33]

Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop

Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. The nephew of Sir Roderick Glossop, Tuppy is a Drones Club member and the fiancé of Bertie Wooster's cousin, Angela Travers.

Honoria Glossop

Honoria Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. She is the athletic and brainy daughter of Sir Roderick Glossop.

Lady Glossop

Lady Glossop is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the wife of well known nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop, mother to Oswald and Honoria, and an acquaintance of Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha. She is mentioned but does not appear in the stories, and dies before the events of Thank You, Jeeves.[34]

In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Jeeves instead states to Bertie that Lady Glossop eloped with a bus conductor, and also says that Sir Roderick was anxious to remarry.

Sir Roderick Glossop

Sir Roderick Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the comic novels of P. G. Wodehouse. He is the father of Oswald and Honoria, as well as the uncle of Tuppy Glossop. Sometimes referred to as "the noted nerve specialist" or "the loony doctor", he is a practitioner of psychiatry. He also appears in a Blandings Castle novel outside the Jeeves canon.

Percy Gorringe

Percy Gorringe is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, being a side-whiskered poet and writer, the stepson of newspaper owner Mr Trotter and the son of Mrs Trotter. He becomes engaged to Florence Craye and is intent on producing her novel Spindrift as a play in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, but is dumped by Florence after the play is a flop, as mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves.[35] He writes mystery novels under the name Rex West.[36]

Agatha Gregson

Agatha Gregson (née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being Bertie Wooster's fearsome Aunt Agatha and mother of Thomas "Thos Gregson.

Thomas "Thos" Gregson

Thomas "Thos" (sometimes written Thos.) Gregson is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. The troublesome son of Agatha Gregson and her first husband Spenser Gregson, he first appears in "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", in which he is being tutored by Bingo Little. His next appearance is in "The Love That Purifies". In this story, he is stated to be fourteen years old. In the novel The Mating Season, he procures the cosh that ultimately ends up in Jeeves's possession. Bertie mentions reluctantly taking his cousin Thos to the theatre at the request of his Aunt Agatha in several stories.[37]

Francis Heppenstall

The Reverend Francis Heppenstall is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is the vicar at the village church at Twing. He is one of the entries in "The Great Sermon Handicap", manages the annual village school treat in "The Purity of the Turf", and is the uncle of Mary Burgess in "The Metropolitan Touch". He also has two sons.[38]

Reginald "Kipper" Herring

Reginald "Kipper" Herring is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, being a childhood friend of Bertie Wooster from Malvern House.[39] In Jeeves in the Offing, Kipper is employed as a journalist at the Thursday Review, in which capacity he writes a scathing review of a book on preparatory schools by his former headmaster Aubrey Upjohn. He is engaged to the mischievous Bobbie Wickham.[40] Kipper Herring's nickname is probably derived from kippers.

Reginald Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as Jeeves, is a recurring fictional character in the eponymous stories, being the valet of Bertie Wooster.

Mortimer Little, Lord Bittlesham

Mortimer Little is a fictional character appearing in the Jeeves semi-novel, The Inimitable Jeeves. He devotes himself almost entirely to eating and is very fat. He is the uncle of Bingo Little, who is dependent upon him for an allowance. In "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum", Bingo's strategem, suggested by Jeeves, to get his allowance increased backfires by inducing Old Mr. Little to marry his cook, Miss Watson. He acquires the title Lord Bittlesham by the time he appears in "Comrade Bingo", and also appears in "Bingo and the Little Woman".[41]

Richard "Bingo" Little

Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. A member of the Drones Club and a close friend of Bertie Wooster, Bingo often falls in love in the early stories. Bingo also appears in Drones Club stories outside the Jeeves canon.

Daphne Dolores Morehead

Daphne Dolores Morehead is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. She is a young and attractive blonde bestselling novelist. Blue-eyed and curvaceous, she turned the head of Stilton Cheesewright, definitively freeing Stilton from his on-again, off-again engagements to Florence Craye.[42] She is probably based on Daphne du Maurier.

In the Jeeves and Wooster television series, Morehead herself does not appear. Instead, she is impersonated by Jeeves.

Constable Eustace Oates

Police Constable Eustace Oates is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is a police officer at Totleigh-in-the-Wold. He is bitten by Stiffy Byng's dog Bartholomew and gets his helmet stolen in The Code of the Woosters, and arrests Bertie in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[43]

Gwladys Pendlebury

Gwladys Pendlebury is a fictional character appearing in the Jeeves short story, "The Spot of Art" (collected in Very Good, Jeeves).[44]

Harold "Stinker" Pinker

The Reverend Harold "Stinker" Pinker is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He went to Oxford with Bertie Wooster. He boxed and played rugby football at Oxford, and later played rugby for England. A kindly and muscular individual, he is described by Bertie as being "a large, lumbering Newfoundland puppy of a chap".[45] Stiffy Byng refers to him as an example of Muscular Christianity.[46] He is prone to tripping and knocking over tables.[47] Bertie says that he "had always been constitutionally incapable of walking through the great Gobi desert without knocking something over".[48]

A curate at Totleigh-in-the-Wold, he is engaged Stiffy Byng to in The Code of the Woosters, appears with her again in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves in which he becomes vicar and the prop forward of the local rugby team at Hockley-cum-Meston, and is mentioned as performing well for the team in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.[49]

Major Plank

Major Plank is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He was called "Barmy" Plank at school.[50] An elderly and square-faced man, he is an explorer who lives in the village of Hockley-cum-Meston, in a house he inherited from his godfather. Devoted to rugby football, he sometimes has memory trouble due to malaria. He sells an amber statuette he obtained in the Congo to Sir Watkyn Bassett and meets the so-called Alpine Joe in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[51] He sees Alpine Joe again in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.

Major Plank may be the Major Brabazon-Plank who appears in the earlier Uncle Fred novel outside the Jeeves canon, Uncle Dynamite.[52]

Claude "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright

Claude Cattermole "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is a West End actor, a member of the Drones Club, and the brother of Cora "Corky" Potter-Pirbright. Catsmeat also appears in Drones Club stories outside the Jeeves canon.

Mrs Scholfield

Mrs. Scholfield is a fictional character who is mentioned in the Jeeves short story "Bertie Changes His Mind". She is sister to Bertie Wooster, and apparently lives or spends some considerable portion of her time in India.[53] She is never given a first name. Bertie and his sister seem to be on good terms, since Bertie considers buying a house where he can live with his sister and her three young daughters.

When asked by Chuffy in Thank You, Jeeves if he has any sisters, Bertie replies in the negative.[54] This may be a continuity error, though Wodehouse scholars have proposed possible explanations for this inconsistency. Bertie may have preferred not to mention his sister since he was trying to convince Chuffy that he had kissed Pauline Stoker in a brotherly manner,[53] Mrs. Scholfield might have passed away somewhere between the short story and the novel, or Bertie simply preferred not to discuss his family with a man who had threatened him with physical harm.

Charlie Silversmith

Charlie Silversmith is a fictional character who appears in the Jeeves novel, The Mating Season. A large, imposing 16-stone man with a bald head, Silversmith is the austere butler at Deverill Hall. He is Jeeves's uncle and the father of Queenie, who is the parlourmaid at Deverill Hall and engaged to Constable Dobbs.[55] In Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster says that he esteems few men more highly than Jeeves's Uncle Charlie, and when Jeeves is writing a letter to his uncle, Bertie says, "Give Uncle Charlie my love", to which Jeeves replies that he will.[56]

Oliver "Sippy" Sipperley

Oliver Randolph Sipperley, called "Sippy" by Bertie, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. Sippy is a 24-year-old author who is financially dependent on his Aunt Vera. He is initially a freelance author in "Without the Option" but has become editor of The Mayfair Gazette in "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy". He recommends Jeeves's problem-solving abilities to Gussie Fink-Nottle in Right Ho, Jeeves.[57]

Roderick Spode

Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels. Aggressive and intimidating, Spode is usually a threat to Bertie Wooster.

Rupert Steggles

Rupert Steggles is a fictional character in three linked Jeeves short stories in The Inimitable Jeeves. The only son of one of the biggest bookies in London, Steggles is an amateur bookmaker of dubious reputation. He is variously described as ferret-faced and rat-faced, and uses underhanded tactics to ensure that he profits from bookmaking. In "The Great Sermon Handicap", Steggles takes bets on the sermon duration of local clergymen near Twing Hall on a given Sunday. In "The Purity of the Turf", he organizes betting on the events at the Twing village school treat held on the grounds of Twing Hall. In "The Metropolitan Touch", Steggles takes bets on who will win the heart of Mary Burgess.[58]

J. Washburn Stoker

J. Washburn Stoker is a fictional character in the Jeeves novel, Thank You, Jeeves, in which his young son Dwight Stoker and daughter Pauline Stoker also appear. Stoker has another daughter, Emerald Stoker, who appears in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[59]

Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd

Rocky Todd is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is an American poet. Bertie mentions paying him a visit in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest". Rocky seeks help from Bertie and Jeeves in "The Aunt and the Sluggard". Both of these short stories are collected in Carry On, Jeeves.[60]

Angela Travers

Angela Travers is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. She is the daughter of Dahlia Travers and Tom Travers, a cousin of Bertie Wooster, and the fiancée of Tuppy Glossop. She is mentioned in several stories and appears in the novel Right Ho, Jeeves.[61] Bertie is very fond of her. When they were children, she used to call herself his little sweetheart.[62]

Dahlia Travers

Dahlia Travers (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being Bertie Wooster's bonhomous aunt, as well as the wife of Uncle Tom Travers and the mother of Angela Travers and Bonzo Travers. Aside from Bertie and Jeeves, Aunt Dahlia makes an appearance in more Jeeves stories than any other character, appearing in seven short stories and seven novels.

Tom Travers

Thomas "Tom" Portarlington Travers is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He is the husband of Aunt Dahlia and thus Bertie Wooster's uncle. Travers, known to Bertie as Uncle Tom, made a fortune doing business in the Far East. Although reluctant to part with money, especially for income tax, he provides the funds for her rarely profitable magazine Milady's Boudoir, which he refers to as "Madame's Nightshirt". Travers also suffers from severe digestion problems, which are only allayed by the cooking of his French chef Anatole. Tom Travers's hobby is collecting old silver, in which his biggest rival is Sir Watkyn Bassett. Their rivalry forms a major part of the plot of The Code of the Woosters, in which they are both seeking to purchase a rare eighteenth-century cow creamer.[63]

In addition to being mentioned in many stories, Uncle Tom appears in "Clustering Round Young Bingo", Right Ho, Jeeves, and Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Bertie gets a letter from him in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.

Mr Trotter

Mr Trotter (Lemuel Gengulphus Trotter) is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. He is a newspaper owner from Liverpool, husband of the domineering Mrs Trotter, and stepfather of her son, the poet Percy Gorringe. Trotter is invited to Aunt Dahlia's country house Brinkley Court to decide on acquiring her literary journal, Milady's Boudoir.[64]

Mrs Trotter

Mrs Trotter is a fictional character who appears in one Jeeves novel, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, being the domineering and socially ambitious wife of Liverpool newspaper owner Mr Trotter and the mother by a former marriage of poet Percy Gorringe.[64]

Aubrey Upjohn

The Reverend Aubrey Upjohn is a fictional character who is mentioned in several Jeeves stories and appears in the novel Jeeves in the Offing. Formerly the stern headmaster of Malvern House Preparatory School, he is 5' 7" tall, though he seemed to be 8' 6" tall to Bertie Wooster when Bertie was a child.[65] Upjohn has retired and grown a moustache. He is the widower of Jane Mills and stepfather of Phyllis Mills, and hopes to stand for Parliament as the Conservative candidate in Market Snodsbury.[66]

Upjohn also appears in a Drones Club short story outside the Jeeves canon, "Bramley Is So Bracing" (collected in Nothing Serious), in which Freddie Widgeon inadvertently leaves Bingo Little's baby in his study.[66] He is mentioned in the Drones Club short story, "The Editor Regrets" (collected in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets).

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being a redheaded girl enamoured of practical jokes. She also appears in Mr. Mulliner stories and other stories outside the Jeeves canon.

Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

Bertram "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the master of said Jeeves.

Claude and Eustace Wooster

Claude and Eustace Wooster are fictional characters in the Jeeves semi-novel The Inimitable Jeeves, being the cousins Bertie Wooster and the twin sons of Henry Wooster and Emily Wooster. They appear in "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", "The Great Sermon Handicap" and "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace".[67]

Emily Wooster

Emily Wooster is a fictional character mentioned in one Jeeves semi-novel, The Inimitable Jeeves. She is Bertie Wooster's Aunt Emily, the widow of Henry Wooster, and the mother of Claude and Eustace Wooster.[68]

George Wooster, Lord Yaxley

George Wooster, Lord Yaxley, is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He frequents many gentlemen's clubs, and is said to have discovered, well before modern medical thought, that alcohol was a food.[68] He is Bertie's uncle and apparently inherits his title, as he seems unlikely to have earned a title. He eventually marries an ex-barmaid.[69] He plays an important role in "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" and appears in "Indian Summer of an Uncle".

Henry Wooster

Henry Wooster is a fictional character mentioned in the Jeeves semi-novel The Inimitable Jeeves, being Bertie Wooster's Uncle Henry, and the brother of Bertie's late father. Though Bertie thought he was extremely decent, Uncle Henry did strange things like keep eleven pet rabbits in his bedroom. He ended up in some sort of home, though his sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha, claims he was merely eccentric.[70] He died sometime before the stories take place, leaving behind a wife, Emily Wooster, and his twin sons, Claude and Eustace Wooster.

Uncle Henry's story gives Sir Roderick Glossop concerns about Bertie Wooster's sanity in "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch". He is likely the same Uncle Henry who gave Bertie the profitable tip that Bertie repeats to an audience of girls in "Bertie Changes His Mind".[71]

Willoughby Wooster

Uncle Willoughby is a fictional character appearing in the Jeeves short story, "Jeeves Takes Charge". He is Bertie's uncle and resides in Easeby Hall.[72] His surname is not stated but is most likely Wooster. Bertie is initially financially dependent on Willoughby, though this is not true in later works. As he does not appear in later stories, it is speculated that Willoughby passed away and Bertie inherited from him.[73] It is also possible that Willoughby was the trustee of Bertie's inheritance and Bertie obtained full access to his inheritance after reaching a certain age.

See also

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 20, pp. 235-26.
  2. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 2-3.
  3. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), p. 213.
  4. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 22.
  5. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), p. 225.
  6. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 11.
  7. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 16.
  8. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), pp. 123-126.
  9. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 20.
  10. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 40.
  11. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 31-32.
  12. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 16.
  13. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 35.
  14. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), pp. 221-222.
  15. ↑ McCrum, Robert (2004). Wodehouse: A Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. p. 130. ISBN 0-393-05159-5.
  16. 1 2 Cawthorne (2013), pp. 203-204.
  17. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 3, p. 29.
  18. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 49.
  19. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), pp. 217-218.
  20. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 45.
  21. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 2-3.
  22. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 58.
  23. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 47.
  24. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), pp. 185-186.
  25. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 48.
  26. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), p. 186.
  27. 1 2 3 Wodehouse (2008) [1925], Carry On, Jeeves, chapter 1, p. 14.
  28. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1947], Joy in the Morning, chapter 4, p. 38.
  29. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1947], Joy in the Morning, chapter 14, p. 134.
  30. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1947], Joy in the Morning, chapter 24, p. 230.
  31. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1947], Joy in the Morning, chapter 22, p. 211.
  32. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1925], Carry On, Jeeves, chapter 1, pp. 18-19.
  33. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 90.
  34. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 100.
  35. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 105.
  36. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 271.
  37. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 85.
  38. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 90.
  39. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), p. 219.
  40. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 120.
  41. ↑ Garrison (1991), pp. 106-107.
  42. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 124.
  43. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 134.
  44. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 191.
  45. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1938], The Code of the Woosters, chapter 4, pp. 90-91.
  46. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 16, p. 141.
  47. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 2, p. 22.
  48. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1938], The Code of the Woosters, chapter 9, p. 171.
  49. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 197-198.
  50. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1974], Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, chapter 3, p. 24.
  51. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 199.
  52. ↑ Garrison (1991), p. 32.
  53. 1 2 Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 221.
  54. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Thank You, Jeeves, chapter 6, p. 75.
  55. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 230.
  56. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1971], Much Obliged, Jeeves, chapter 15, pp. 161-166.
  57. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 232.
  58. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 240.
  59. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 240-241.
  60. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 250.
  61. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 251-252.
  62. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 12, p. 144.
  63. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 255-256.
  64. 1 2 Garrison (1991), p. 194.
  65. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 265-266.
  66. 1 2 Garrison (1991), p. 201.
  67. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 290-292.
  68. 1 2 Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 292.
  69. ↑ Usborne (2003), p. 74.
  70. ↑ Wodehouse (2008) [1923], The Inimitable Jeeves, chapter 7, p. 75.
  71. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 261.
  72. ↑ Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 264.
  73. ↑ Cawthorne (2013), p. 179.
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