List of P. G. Wodehouse characters

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

• Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
  • Hon. Freddie Threepwood
    • Lord Percy Stockheath, Freddie's cousin whose parents are never named
      • Algernon Wooster, Lord Percy's cousin, which suggests that Bertie Wooster may be a distant relative as well
    • Niagara "Aggie" Donaldson, Freddie's wife
  • George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son and heir to the earldom
    • Cecily Threepwood, Lord Bosham's wife
    • George Threepwood, Lord Bosham's second son
  • Lady Mildred Mant, Emsworth's eldest daughter
    • Colonel Horace Mant, her husband
  • Angela, Emsworth's niece whose mother is Jane, a deceased sister of Lord Emsworth (ref Pig-hoo-eey)
• Lady Ann Warblington, Emsworth's sister who had lived at Blandings since the death of his wife
• Lady Constance Keeble, later Schoonmaker, Emsworth's bossiest sister
  • Joseph Keeble, her first husband, also Phyllis Jackson stepfather.
  • James Schoonmaker, lady Constance second husband and an American millionaire
• Hon. Lancelot Threepwood, Emsworth's deceased brother
  • Millicent Threepwood, his daughter
• Lady Julia Fish, Emsworth's large and blonde sister
  • Maj. Gen. Sir Miles Fish, C.B.O., her late husband
  • Ronald Overbury Fish, her son and a member of the Drones Club
• Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Emsworth's unmarried younger brother
• Lady Georgiana Alcester, who owns fourteen dogs
  • Gertrude Alcester, her daughter
• Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
  • Jane, her daughter
• Lady Hermione Wedge, Emsworth's short and fat sister
  • Colonel Egbert Wedge, Lady Hermione's husband
  • Veronica Wedge, her daughter
• Lady Dora Garland, Emsworth's tall and stately sister
  • Sir Everard Garland, KCB, her deceased husband
  • Prudence Garland, Lady Dora's daughter
• Lady Florence Moresby, another of Emsworth's domineering sisters
  • J. J. Underwood, Lady Florence's deceased first husband, a wealthy American
  • Kevin Moresby, her second husband from whom she has separated
• Lady Diana Phipps, the only one of Emsworth's sisters whom Galahad likes

Domestic staff

• Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's very efficient secretary
• Sebastian Beach, head butler
• Montague "Monty" Bodkin, Carmody's successor as secretary in Heavy Weather
• Hugo Carmody, a secretary who becomes secretly engaged to Millicent Threepwood in Summer Lightning and also appears in Heavy Weather
• Angus McAllister, the Scottish head gardener in Blandings Castle and Heavy Weather.
• Merridew, an under-butler
• James Pirbright, Emsworth's pigman in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather
• Psmith, Emsworth's sometime secretary
• Mrs Twemlow, housekeeper
• George Cyril Wellbeloved, Emsworth's pigman in Blandings Castle and Service With a Smile and Parsloe's in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather

Other characters

• Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, an ill-mannered old man
• Angela, Emsworth's niece
• James Bartholomew Belford, former employee of a farm in Nebraska whom Angela wants to marry
• Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, Freddie's University pal who wants to marry Gertrude Alcester
• Sue Brown, a chorus girl in Summer Lightning and Ronnie Fish's fiancée in Heavy Weather
• The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods
• Lord Heacham, rich landowner who had been engaged to Angela
• Ashe Marson, the hero of Something Fresh
• Aline Peters, Freddie's fiancée in Something Fresh
• Lord Percy Stockheath, Freddie's cousin
  • Algernon Wooster, Lord Percy's cousin
• Percy Frobisher Pilbeam, head of the Argus Private Inquiry Agency in Heavy Weather
• Niagara "Aggie" Threepwood, nee Donaldson, Freddie's wife
• George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, a publisher who wants to publish Galahad's reminisces in Heavy Weather and owns a pig called Buckingham Big Boy
• Orlo Watkins, a tenor with whom Gertrude Alcester becomes infatuated
• Augustus Whiffle (or Whipple), author of Lord Emsworth's favorite book, The Care of the Pig
• Dame Daphne Winkworth, headmistress of a girls' school in Eastbourne; also a friend of Aunt Agatha
• Joan Valentine, the heroine Something Fresh
• Thomas and Stokes two footmen
• Thorne who is the head gardner in Something Fresh

Golf stories

• The Oldest Member

Jeeves

• Reginald Jeeves
• Bertie Wooster

Jeeves's relatives

• Mabel, a chorus girl ("The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy" from Carry on Jeeves)
• Egbert, constable of Beckley-in-the-Moor ("Without the Option" from Carry on Jeeves)
• Charlie Silversmith, butler at Deverill Hall in Hampshire (The Mating Season)

Bertie's relatives

• Aunt Dahlia Travers
  • Uncle Tom Travers
  • Bonzo Travers, their son
  • Angela Travers, their daughter
  • George Travers, apparently Uncle Tom's brother
• Aunt Agatha Gregson, later Lady Worplesdon
  • Spenser Gregson, Agatha's first husband
  • Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon, her second husband
    • Lady Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's daughter
    • Edwin Craye, his son, a Boy Scout
    • Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood, his ward
  • Thomas Gregson, her ill-behaved son
• Uncle Willoughby Wooster, who publishes scandalous memoirs
• Uncle Henry Wooster, a looney
  • Emily Wooster, his widow
  • Claude and Eustace Wooster, his twin sons
• Uncle George Wooster, Lord Yaxley
  • 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
• 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 panter 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
• Bingo Little
  • 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
• Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker, curate in Market Snodspury.
  • 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

Bertie's enemies

• Sir Watkyn Bassett, CBE, a magistrate in Bosher Street
  • Madeline Bassett, his daughter
  • Butterfield, his butler
  • Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, his niece
• D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright
• Sir Roderick Glossop, a looney doctor in Harley Street
  • Lady Glossop, his wife
  • Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, his nephew
  • Honoria Glossop, his daughter
  • Oswald Glossop, Honoria's younger brother
• 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

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
  • 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

• 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

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
  • 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 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

Mr Mulliner

• Mr Mulliner

Psmith

• Rupert Psmith in the first three stories (Mike and Psmith, Psmith in the City, and Psmith Journalist. Changed to Ronald Psmith in 'Leave it to Psmith' (a Blandings story) because Baxter's given name is Rupert. Ronald Eustace Psmith. A young englishman who is ready to do to everything you want if it has nothing to do with fish. He is also one of Lord Emsworth's many secretaries.
• Mike Jackson, best friend of Ronald Eustace Psmith and an former employee of Psmith's dad. He later married Phyllis Jackson stepdaughter of Joseph Keeble.

Ukridge

• Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge
• James Corcoran, narrator of all the Ukridge tales

Uncle Fred

• Frederick Altamout Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham
• Lady Jane, Uncle Fred's wife
• Pongo Twistleton, nephew of Uncle Fred
• Valerie Twistleton, Pongo's sister

Other

• Monty Bodkin, a member of the Drones Club who appears in a number of novels and is one of Lord Emsworth's many secretaries
• 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.

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