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ODP's article on list of p g wodehouse characters h The following is an incomplete list of fictional characters who appear in
the novels and short stories of P. G.
Wodehouse. Due to overlap between the various classifications of Wodehouse's work, some characters appear more than
once.
Blandings Castle
Threepwood family
- Hon. Lancelot Threepwood, Emsworth's deceased brother
- Jane, deceased sister of Emsworth
- Angela, daughter of Jane, Emsworth's niece
- Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even
than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
Domestic staff
Secretaries
- Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's original, very efficient secretary
- Montague "Monty" Bodkin, also Emsworth's secretary for a time
- Lavender Briggs, a tall and haughty secretary
- Alexandra "Sandy" Callender, an attractive but fiery
red-headed secretary
- Hugo Carmody, another secretary, and a friend of Ronnie
Fish
- Ronald Psmith, Baxter's replacement as secretary
- Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer, and briefly
Emsworth's secretary
House staff
Outdoor staff
Pig staff
Other characters
- James Bartholomew Belford, a farmer, whom Angela
loves
- Major Wilfred "Plug" Basham, an old friend of Galahad and
feature of his stories
- Admiral George J. "Fruity" Biffen, another old friend of
Galahad
- Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, Freddie's university pal
- "Puffy" Benger, yet another of Galahad's old cronies
- Sue Brown, a chorus girl who falls for Ronnie Fish
- Edward Cootes, a shard-sharp, in love with Aileen
Peavey
- Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, an ill-mannered old man, an old
friend of Connie
- George Emerson, a Hong Kong policeman, in love with Aline
Peters
- Lord Heacham, a rich landowner, once engaged to
Angela
- Frederick Twistleton, Earl of Ickenham, a mischievous old Pelican
- R. Jones, a fat bookmaker and conman
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- Bill Lister, Galahad's godson, an artist who loves
Prudence Garland
- Ashe Marson, a writer, the hero of Something
Fresh
- Ralston McTodd, a Canadian poet
- Aileen Peavey (a.k.a. Smooth Lizzie), an American poetess
and crook
- Aline Peters, Freddie's fiancée in Something Fresh
- Percy Frobisher Pilbeam, head of the Argus Private Inquiry
Agency
- Tipton Plimsoll, a wealthy American friend of Freddie's,
who falls for Veronica Wedge
- Claude "Mustard" Pott, another private detective, hired by
Lord Bosham
- Polly Pott, Mustard's pretty daughter, engaged to Ricky
Gilpin
- Gloria Salt, an athletic girl, who is engaged to Sir
Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe for a time
- George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, a publisher and pig
owner
- Orlo Watkins, a tenor with whom Gertrude Alcester becomes
infatuated
- Dame Daphne Winkworth, headmistress of a girls' school in Eastbourne; also a friend of Aunt Agatha
- Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer who loves
Penelope Donaldson
- Joan Valentine, the heroine of Something Fresh
- Orlo, Lord Vosper, a handsome nobleman who visits
Blandings in Pigs Have Wings
- Augustus Whiffle (or Whipple), author of Lord Emsworth's
favorite book, The Care of the Pig
- Jane Yorke, a friend of Freddie's wife Aggie
Golf stories
Jeeves
Jeeves's relatives
Bertie's relatives
- Aunt Dahlia Travers
- Aunt Agatha Gregson, later Lady Worplesdon
- Uncle Willoughby Wooster, Bertie's initial trustee, resident of a country seat in
Shropshire, notable for his scandalous Reminiscences
- Uncle Henry Wooster, a very personable 'looney' who kept pet rabbits in his bedroom
- Uncle George Wooster, Lord Yaxley, who has devoted his entire life to the pleasures of
the table, and "discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought"
- Maud Wilberforce, a former barmaid and Yaxley's former fiancée, whom he ends up marrying
- Mrs. Scholfield, Bertie's sister, who lives in India with her three daughters
Bertie's friends
- Harold "Beefy" Anstruther, Bertie's friend from Oxford,
engaged to Hilda, a friend of Madeline Bassett
- Cyril Bassington-Bassington
- Francis "Bicky" Bickersteth, a young Englishman sent to make his fortune in New York
- The Duke of Chiswick, Bicky's wealthy and displeased uncle
- Charles Edward "Biffy" Biffen, a Drone who is in love
with Jeeves's niece Mabel
- The Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, a school friend
- Freddie Bullivant, a Drone
- Elizabeth Vickers, the girl whom Freddie loves
- Marmaduke, 5th Baron "Chuffy" Chuffnell, a school friend
- Lady Myrtle Chuffnell, Chuffy's aunt
- Seabury, Lady Myrtle's son and Chuffy's cousin
- Bruce "Corky" Corcoran, portrait painter turned cartoonist
- Alexander Worple, Corky's wealthy uncle
- Muriel Singer, first Corky's fiancée and later Mrs Alexander Worple
- Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle, lover of newts
- George Webster "Boko" Fittleworth, author of plays and fiction
- Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, Sir Roderick Glossop's nephew
- Cora Bellinger, an opera singer whom Tuppy loves
- Reginald "Kipper" Herring, former inmate, with Bertie, of Malvern House, their
preparatory school.
- Bingo Little, renowned in the early days for his ability to fall in love with every
girl he meets, later marries novelist Rosie M Banks and becomes editor of Wee Tots magazine
- Rosie Little, née Rosie M. Banks, Bingo's wife
- Algernon Aubrey Little, Bingo's son
- Lord Bittlesham, formerly Mortimer Little, Bingo's uncle and provider of his allowance
- Gussie Mannering-Phipps, Bertie's cousin in New York
- Ray Denison, Gussie's fiancée and music hall performer
- Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker, curate in Market Snodsbury.
- Claude Cattermole "Catsmeat" Potter-Pirbright, a school friend
- Cora "Corky" Pirbright, his sister
- * The Rev. Sidney Pirbright, Catsmeat's and Corky's uncle; vicar of King's Deverill
- Oliver Randolph "Sippy" Sipperley, an impecunious aspiring author
- Vera Sipperley, his aunt and means of financial support
- Professor Pringle, his daughter Heloise, and aunt
Jane, friends of Aunt Vera
- Gwendolen Moon, a poetess with whom he is in love
- Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd, a poet who lives on Long
Island and hates New York City
- Isabel Rockmetteller, Rocky's aunt
Bertie's enemies
- Sir Watkyn Bassett, CBE, a
magistrate in Bosher Street
- D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright
- Sir Roderick Glossop, a looney doctor in Harley
Street, became Bertie's good friend in 'Thank You, Jeeves'
- Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup, an amateur dictator and designer of women's
underclothing
- Mrs. Wintergreen, his aunt
- Col. H. H. Wintergreen, late husband of Mrs. Wintergreen
- Aubrey Upjohn, Bertie's former headmaster at Malvern House.
Romantic interests and fiancées
- Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn Bassett's
daughter
- Daphne Braythwayt, Honoria Glossop's friend
- Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, later Mrs. Harold Pinker, Watkyn Bassett's niece
- Lady Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's daughter and Bertie's first fiancée
- Honoria Glossop, Sir Roderick Glossop's daughter
- Aline Hemmingway, Soapy Sid's partner in crime
- Gwladys Pendlebury, an artist who paints Bertie's portrait
- Pauline Stoker
- J. Washburn Stoker, her father, an American millionaire
- Dwight Stoker, Washburn's son and Pauline's younger brother
- Emerald Stoker, Pauline's sister
- Benstead, valet to George Stoker, Washburn's late cousin; a friend of Jeeves
- Lady Cynthia Wickhammersley, daughter of Lord
Wickhammersley
- Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham, engagement broken off, and became enemies for a short
period
- Lady Wickham, Bobbie's mother; an old friend of Aunt Agatha
- Clementina, Bobbie's cousin
Domestic staff
Other characters
- Anatole, chef extraordinaire
- Mr Anstruther, an elderly man who holds a Good Conduct competition between
Thomas Gregson and Bonzo Travers
- Rosie M. Banks, a novelist whom Bertie impersonates, and who later marries
Bingo Little
- Mr. Blumenfeld, producer of musicals
- Comrade Butt, a Marxist
- The Rt. Hon. A. B. Filmer, a Cabinet Minister
- Esmond Haddock, a man dominated by his aunts
- Charlotte, Emmeline, Harriet, and Myrtle Deverill, and Dame Daphne Winkworth, his
aunts
- Aline Hemmingway, Soapy Sid's partner in crime
- Sidney "Soapy Sid" Hemmingway, a con man
- The Rev. Francis Heppenstall, a long-winded vicar
- Peggy Mainwaring, a student at Miss Tomlinson's school
- Miss Mapleton, headmistress of a girls' school in Bingley
- McIntosh, Aunt Agatha's terrier
- Meadowes, Jeeves's predecessor as Bertie's valet
- Sebastian Moon, a detestable young boy with golden curls
- Daphne Dolores Morehead, an attractive blonde bestselling novelist
- Eustace Oates, constable at Totleigh-in-the-Wold
- Wilmot, Lord Pershore, a sheltered young man
- Lady Malvern, his over-protective mother
- Rhoda Platt, a barmaid whom Lord Yaxley thinks he
loves
- Lucius Pim, an artist who loves Gwladys
Pendlebury
- Beatrice Slingsby, his sister
- Alexander Slingsby, Beatrice's husband
- Laura Pyke, a nutrition-obsessed schoolmate of Rosie
Little
- Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, a Marxist with whom Bingo Little
falls in love
- Jane Snettisham, Aunt Dahlia's friend, who attempts to
win Anatole from her in a bet
- Jack, Lord Snettisham, Jane's husband
- Rupert Steggles, a crooked bookie
- Mrs. Tinkler-Moulke, a patient of Sir Roderick
Glossop
- Miss Tomlinson, the headmistress of a girls' school
- The Rev. Aubrey Upjohn, headmaster of Malvern House,
where Bertie went to school
- Lord Wickhammersley, a friend of Bertie's late father
- Lady Cynthia Wickhammersley, his daughter
- Dame Daphne Winkworth, Aunt Agatha's friend
and Madeline Bassett's godmother; also an acquaintance of Lord Emsworth
- Gertrude Winkworth, her daughter
- Sir Reginald Witherspoon, Bart., husband of Uncle Tom's sister Katharine
- Gus or Augustus the cat, who intensely dislikes being disturbed from his sleep and unlike most cats, dislikes being scratched
under the ears.
Mr Mulliner
Psmith and Mike
- Psmith, an immaculately dressed, monocle-sporting young man. His name is Rupert
Psmith in his early appearances, but is changed to Ronald Psmith in Leave it
to Psmith (a Blandings story), presumably to avoid confusion with Rupert Baxter
- Mike Jackson, best friend of Psmith
- Burgess, captain of the Wrykyn cricket team
- "Gazeka" Firby-Smith, head of Mike's house at Wrykyn
- Bob Jackson, Mike's elder brother, also at Wrykyn
- Trevor and Clowes, friends of Bob and keen cricketers
- Wain, master of Mike's house at Wrykyn
- Wyatt, Wain's step-stop, who shares a dorm with Mike at Wrykyn
- Neville-Smith, a day boy at Wrykyn, a good fast bowler
- Strachan, the boy who took Mike's place as IX Cricket Captain
- Mr Outwood, master of Mike and Psmith's house at Sedleigh
- Mr Downing, master of another house at Sedleigh
- Adair, very keen cricket captain at Sedleigh
- Tom Jellicoe, a boy in Outwood's house, who shares a dorm with Mike
and Psmith
- Spiller, another boy in Outwood's, whose study Psmith steals
- Stone, another boy in Outwood's, a ragger
- Robinson, another boy in Outwood's, Stone's henchman
- Dunster, a Sedleigh old boy and famed ragger
- Sergeant Collard, portly school sergeant as Sedleigh
- John Bickersdyke, head of the New Asiatic Bank
- Mr Rossiter, Head Postage at the Bank, a football fan
- Bannister, Mike's forerunner in Postage
- Bristow, Mike's successor there
- Mr Waller, Head of the Cash Department, an amiable sort but secret
socialist
- Mr Preble, an unintelligible socialist orator
- Joe Jackson, one of Mike's brothers, an M.C.C. player
- Reggie Jackson, another cricket playing brother
- Billy Windsor, a New York journalist befriended by Psmith
- Kid Brady, a boxer boosted by
Psmith in New York
- Bat Jarvis, a New York gangster
befriended by Psmith
- Long Otto, one of Jarvis' henchmen, a stringy, silent young man
- Spider Reilly, another gang boss, head of the "Three Points" gang
- Jack Repetto, a thug in Reilly's gang, who ruins Psmith's hat
- Dude Dawson, head of the "Table Hill" gang, Reilly's main rival
- Francis Parker, a sinister, well-dressed man
Ukridge
- Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, entrepreneur
- James "Corky" Corcoran, a writer friend of Ukridge, the
narrator of all the Ukridge shorts.
- George Tupper, a friend of Ukridge and Corky from
Wrykyn days
- B. V. "Boko" Lawlor, an ex-Wrykynian who stands for
Parliament
- J. G. "Looney" Coote, another ex-Wrykynian friend
- "Battling" Billson, a boxer
managed by Ukridge
- Teddy Weeks, once a friend of Ukridge and Corky, who becomes
a movie star
- Joe "the Lawyer", an unsavoury associate of Ukridge
- Izzy Previn, another untrustworthy type
- Beale, Ukridge's man in Love Among the Chickens
- Professor Derrick, Ukridge's Irish neighbour in Love
Among the Chickens
- Jeremy Garnet, another writer friend of Ukridge, who
narrates Love Among the Chickens
- Harry Hawk, a large local in Love Among the Chickens,
who aids Garnet in a plot
Uncle Fred
Other
Introduced in rough order of the book in which they first appear
- William Paradene West, known to all as Bill, of Bill the Conqueror fame
- Cooley Paradene, Bill West's uncle, a wealthy businessman and
collector of rare books
- Otis Paradene, Cooley's sponging brother
- Jasper Daly, Cooley's sponging brother-in-law
- Evelyn Paradene-Kirby, Cooley's baby-talking, sponging niece
- Horace French, an unpleasant youth adopted by Paradene
- Sherman Bastable, Horace's tutor
- Professor Appleby, Horace's white-bearded mentor
- Joe the Dip, a member of Appleby's gang
- Wilfred Slingsby, Paradene's man in London
- Judson Coker, Bill West's best friend, a devout drinker
- Alice Coker, Judson's doting sister, adored by Bill
- Prudence Stryker, a New York chorus girl, old friend of Judson Coker
- George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, media mogul, who first
appears in Bill the Conqueror and later visits Blandings
- Percy Frobisher Pilbeam, Roderick's deputy on Society Spice, later
editor and detective
- Sam Shotter, a somewhat eccentric American, hero of
Sam the Sudden (US title: Sam in the Suburbs)
- Mr John B. Pynsent, American Export-Import millionaire, Sam's uncle
- Clarence "Hash" Todhunter, an old seafaring pal of Sam's, who
becomes his cook
- Kay Derrick, a pretty young girl, whose photograph Sam falls in
love with
- Willoughby Braddock, a schoolfriend of Sam and an old neighbour of
Kay
- Alexander "Chimp" Twist, a.k.a. J Sheringham Adair, a crook
employed by Lord Tilbury
- The late Edward "Finky" Finglass, a bank robber, once a resident of
Valley Fields
- Claude Winnington-Bates, an unpleasant Wrykyn old boy
- Mrs Winnington-Bates, mother of Claude, Kay's demanding employer
- Mr Cornelius, a white-bearded esate agent and historian, a friend
of Mr Wrenn
- Monty Bodkin, a member of the Drones Club who
appears in a number of novels and is one of Lord Emsworth's many secretaries
- Gertrude Butterworth, the girl to whom Monty was engaged.
- Sandy Miller, Monty's secretary in California, the girl he marries. (U.S. title: The Plot
That Thickened)
- Reggie Pepper, the hapless protagonist of several stories; Bertie Wooster's prototype
- Oofy Prosser, the richest member of Drones Club.
- Myrtle Prosser, Oofy's wife.
- Ogden Ford 'The Little Nugget', obnoxious spoiled child and target of various kidnappers
- Nesta Ford (Later Mrs Ford Pett), his mother
- Peter Burns, rich young man who tries to kidnap Ogden for Mrs Ford
- Cynthia Drassilis, ambitious fiancée of Peter Burns
- Audrey Blake, the real target of Peter Burns's affection
- Arnold Abney, mild headmaster of Sanstead, mentioned as Bertie Wooster's grammar school
- Mr Glossop, irascible master at Sanstead
- Buck MacGinnis, gang leader and arch rival of Slippery Sam Fisher
- Slippery Sam Fisher, intellectual crook who kidnaps Ogden Ford
- Peter Pett, Millionaire and wife to Nesta Ford
- Anne Chester, Mr Pett's niece and beloved of Jimmy Crocker
- Jimmy Crocker, wild socialite on the mend
- Eugenia Crocker (Formerly van Brunt), dissapproving stepmother of Jimmy and Nesta Ford's sister.
- Bingley Crocker, his father, enthusiastic baseball fan
- Skinner, Chicago Ed (Various Aliases of Bingley Crocker)
- Jerry Mitchell, Mr Pett's physical instructor
- Willie Partridge, Nesta Ford's nephew and inventor of the explosive Partidgite
- Lord Wisbeach (Actually Jack the Gentleman), thief after the explosive
- Lord Wisbeach (The Real One) Piccadilly Jim's friend
- Mr Sturgis, head of a detctive agency
- Miss Trimble, private detective and ardent socialist
- Bud Smithers, owner of a dogs' home thought appropriate for Ogden by several conspirators
- Lord Percy Whipple, the man who fights Piccadilly Jim in a club
References
- Usborne, Richard (2003). Plum Sauce: A P. G. Wodehouse Companion. New
York: The Overlook Press, pages 96–127. ISBN 1-58567-441-9.
- Kuzmenko, Michel. Bibliography. The
Russian Wodehouse Society. Retrieved on January 6, 2005.
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