Tom Travers
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In P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, Tom Travers is the husband of Aunt Dahlia and uncle of Bertie Wooster. Travers, known to Bertie as Uncle Tom, funded his wife's rarely-profitable magazine Milady's Boudoir, which he always called "Madame's Nightshirt", until she sold it.
Uncle Tom is cranky and unlikely to part with his money, much to Aunt Dahlia's chagrin. She describes him howling over for weeks after paying his income taxes. He also suffers from notoriously bad digestion problems that only the cooking of his French chef Anatole can allay his indigestion.
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Uncle Tom's worst enemy is Sir Watkyn Bassett, the prominent, foul, twisted toad of Totleigh Towers and magistrate of Totleigh-In-The-World, who fined Bertie Wooster five pounds for stealing Constable Oats' helmet, and who rivals him in the amount of silver he has been able to snare out of better hands.
The largest discrepancy between the two is in Jeeves Saves The Cow-Creamer 1991, when Bertie is sent by his Aunt Dahlia to buy an extra rare eighteenth century cow shaped cream jug for Tom, before it is aquirred by Sir Watkyn Bassett, causing him to sink into depression. However when Bertie is carrying out Jeeves's plan, which is to tell the shop keeper that the cow-creamer is of modern Dutch origin, and, as planned, told of its real origin, Bertie trips over the shop keeper's cat in an attempt to read the embossment, he is appreheded by Roderick Spode and Sir Watkyn Bassett thinking that he is attempting to make off with it in a burglarious manner, causing him to be chassed by a police officer and Sir Watkyn Bassett to buy the cow-creamer.
