Freddie Widgeon

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Freddie Widgeon is a recurring fictional character from the Drones Club stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Bingo Little and Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster.

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The most prominent facet of his character is his amazing rapidity in loving and losing girls (this happens in nearly all stories in which he features). He is financially dependent on his eternally discontent uncle, Lord Blicester, who appears in some of the stories.

Freddie stars in many short stories. Perhaps two of the liveliest Freddie Widgeon stories combine to portray a characteristic of Freddie's almost as recurrent as his knack for loving and losing girls. In "Noblesse Oblige" from Young Men in Spats and in "The Masked Troubadour" from Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets, Freddie gets into difficulties and loses money due to his loyal allegiance to the Code of the Widgeons. Whether it is giving his last tenner to a fellow he mistakenly assumes is an old school chum, or giving whatever is asked by a "greasy bird" whose life Freddie saves, Freddie grimly parts with money he cannot spare because he considers it the "only square thing to do". His stories are told by Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.