Lady Glossop

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Lady Delia Glossop is a regular character in the 'Jeeves' stories by the famous comic author, PG Wodehouse. She is the wife of Sir Roderick Glossop, the well known nerve specialist (i.e.: loony doctor), and mother to Honoria Glossop (a big, sporty girl, capable of felling Mussolini with a single push) and Oswald, a nasty little runt who often partakes of a spot of fishing. She is also an acquaintance of Bertie's Aunt Agatha Gregson, later Lady Worplesdon. She features in many of the early Jeeves books, but, we are told by Bertie, dies just before the events of Thank You, Jeeves, written in 1934, whereupon her husband endeavours to remarry Mrs Myrtle Pongleton, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell.

Lady Glossop first meets Bertie when he becomes matrimonially bound to her daughter Honoria, an arrangement worked by her and Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha. Bertie is quite horrified by the prospect of marrying into the Glossop family, and bequeaths that Jeeves sort the whole affair out so that a satisfactory conclusion (for him) may be reached. Jeeves stumbles upon the information that both Glossops have a severe horror of moggies, and so at dinner that evening at Bertie's flat, releases several cats. The Glossops leave with the distinct impression that Bertie is quite off his canooba.

Lady Glossop is more sympathetic towards Bertie's woolly-headedness that her spouse, and is in the future always willing to give Bertie a second chance, and consequently Bertie feels more comfortable with her than Sir Roderick.

In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, it is revealed that Lady Glossop eloped with a conductor on the 73 omnibus.