List of P. G. Wodehouse characters

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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.

Contents

[edit] Blandings Castle

[edit] Threepwood family

  • 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".
    • Jane, her daughter

[edit] Domestic staff

[edit] Secretaries

[edit] House staff

[edit] Outdoor staff

[edit] Pig staff

[edit] Other characters

[edit] Golf stories

[edit] Jeeves

[edit] Jeeves's relatives

[edit] Bertie's relatives

[edit] 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.
    • Stephanie "Stiffy" Pinker, née Byng, his wife
  • 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

[edit] Bertie's enemies

[edit] 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

[edit] Domestic staff

  • Brinkley (renamed Rupert Bingley) Bertie's valet after Jeeves gives notice
  • Maple, Lord Worplesdon's butler
  • Mulready, Sir Reginald Witherspoon's butler
  • Oakshott, Uncle Willoughby's butler
  • Purvis, Aunt Agatha's butler
  • Seppings, one of the Travers' butlers at Brinkley Court
  • Waterbury, the chauffeur at Brinkley Court

[edit] 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 revolutionary
  • 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
    • Mary Burgess, his niece
  • 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 M. Banks
  • 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.

[edit] Mr Mulliner

[edit] 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
    • Mr Smith, Psmith's father, an eccentric
  • 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

[edit] Ukridge

[edit] Uncle Fred

[edit] Other

Introduced in rough order of the book in which they first appear

  • 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

[edit] 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.