List of P. G. Wodehouse characters

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The following is an incomplete list of fictional characters featured in the books and stories of P. G. Wodehouse, by series, in alphabetical order by series name. Due to overlap between the various classifications of Wodehouse's work, some characters appear more than once.

Contents

Blandings Castle

Threepwood family

Emsworth's siblings and their families

  • The Hon. Galahad Threepwood , Emsworth's unmarried younger brother
  • The Hon. Lancelot Threepwood, Emsworth's deceased brother
    • Millicent Threepwood, his daughter
  • Lady Ann Warblington, Emsworth's sister, sometime châtelaine at Blandings
  • Jane, deceased sister of Emsworth
    • Angela, daughter of Jane, Emsworth's niece
  • Lady Constance Keeble , later Schoonmaker, Emsworth's bossiest sister
    • Joseph Keeble, her first husband, Phyllis Jackson's stepfather.
    • James Schoonmaker, Lady Constance's second husband, an American millionaire and an old friend of Uncle Fred
      • Myra Schoonmaker, his daughter who marries Bill Bailey despite Lady Constance's best efforts
  • Lady Charlotte, Emsworth's sister, "a tougher egg even than Lady Constance, or her younger sister, Lady Julia".
    • Jane, her daughter
  • Lady Julia Fish, Emsworth's younger sister, who though formidable has a sense of humour and, according to Galahad, "the seeds of greatness" in her.
    • Maj. Gen. Sir Miles Fish, her late husband
      • Ronnie Fish, their son and a member of the Drones Club
  • Lady Florence Moresby, another of Emsworth's domineering sisters
    • J. J. Underwood, Lady Florence's deceased first husband
    • Kevin Moresby, her second husband, from whom she has separated
  • Dora, Lady Garland, Emsworth's tall and stately sister
    • Sir Everard Garland, K.C.B., her late husband
    • Prudence Garland, Lady Dora's daughter
  • Lady Hermione Wedge, Emsworth's sister, who looks like a cook
    • Colonel Egbert Wedge, Lady Hermione's husband
    • Veronica Wedge, the Wedges' beautiful but simple daughter
  • Georgiana, Lady Alcester, another sister of Lord Emsworth, who owns fourteen dogs
    • Gertrude Alcester, her daughter
  • Lady Diana Phipps, the only one of Emsworth's sisters whom Galahad likes
  • Wilfred Allsop, Lord Emsworth's nephew, of uncertain parentage

Emsworth's children and their families

  • George Threepwood, Viscount Bosham, Emsworth's elder son and heir to the earldom
    • Cecily Threepwood, Lord Bosham's wife
      • James Threepwood, their elder son
      • George Threepwood, their second son
  • The Hon. Freddie Threepwood , Emsworth's younger son
    • Niagara "Aggie" Donaldson, Freddie's wife
      • Penelope Donaldson, Aggie's younger sister
        • Mr Donaldson, dog-biscuit king, father of Aggie and Penelope
  • Lady Mildred Mant, Emsworth's eldest daughter
    • Colonel Horace Mant, her husband

Distant relations

  • Percy, Lord Stockheath, Emsworth's nephew, whose parents are never named
    • Algernon Wooster, Lord Stockheath's cousin, implying Bertie Wooster may be a relation too
  • The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods
  • Mrs Jack Hale, mentioned as belonging to the collateral branch of the family (Something Fresh)
  • The 8th Earl of Emsworth - Clarence's father (Company for Gertrude; page 95)
  • Robert - uncle of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96)
  • Claude - cousin of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96)
  • Alistair - maternal uncle of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96)

Domestic staff

Secretaries

  • Rupert Baxter , Lord Emsworth's original, very efficient secretary
  • Montague "Monty" Bodkin , also Emsworth's secretary for a time
  • Lavender Briggs, a tall and haughty secretary
  • Alexandra "Sandy" Callender, an attractive but fiery red-headed secretary
  • Hugo Carmody, another secretary, and a friend of Ronnie Fish
  • Rupert Psmith , Baxter's replacement as secretary
  • Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer, and briefly Emsworth's secretary
  • Eve Halliday, hired to catalogue the library

House staff

  • Sebastian Beach , butler
    • Maudie, his much-married niece
  • Mrs Twemlow, housekeeper
  • Merridew, an under-butler
  • James and Alfred, Thomas and Stokes, Charles and Henry, footmen at the Castle

Outdoor staff

  • Thorne, the Scottish Head Gardener in Something Fresh
  • Angus McAllister, the Scottish Head Gardener after Thorne
  • Slingsby, a chauffeur
  • Alfred Voules, another chauffeur

Pig staff

  • George Cyril Wellbeloved, Emsworth's first pig man, who defects to the Parsloe-Parsloe camp
  • James Pirbright, another pig man, Wellbeloved's replacement
  • Edwin Pott, the pig man in Full Moon
  • Monica Simmons, a pig girl of Amazonian proportions

Other characters

Golf stories

Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves's relations

Bertie's relations

Bertie's friends

Bertie's antagonists

Romantic interests and fiancées

Domestic staff

Other characters

Mr. Mulliner

Psmith and Mike

Ukridge

Uncle Fred

Other

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

References

  1. ( The Mating Season )
  2. Murphy, N. T. P. (2015). P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany. The History Press. p. 40. ISBN   9780750963305 . Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. McLure, Victoria E. (1996). "Wodehouse, P. G.". Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis. p. 1219. ISBN   9780824059903 . Retrieved 11 November 2022.