bertram wilberforce wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose genius manages to extricate Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations. As the first-person narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, Bertie ranks as one of the most vivid comic creations in popular literature. Bertie's middle name, “Wilberforce”, is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name (mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves).

Family

Bertie's family relationships provide recurring motifs in the stories and novels in which he appears, particularly the relationships with his aunts. Due to the volume of stories and time span over which Wodehouse wrote them, there are a number of inconsistencies an…more
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Characters
  • Reginald Jeeves

    Reginald Jeeves

    Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentlemans personal gentleman" (valet) of Bertie Wooster (Bertram Wilberforce Wooster). Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodeh...

  • Dahlia Travers
  • Roderick Spode

    Roderick Spode

    Roderick Spode of Totleigh Towers, head of the Black Shorts in The Code of the Woosters, secretly designs ladies underclothing under the trade name of Eulalie Soeurs, of Bond Street—knowledge of which renders him harmless to Bertie, whom he despises...

  • Stephanie Byng

    Stephanie Byng

    Niece and ward of Sir Watkyn Basset, of Totleigh Towers, and protagonist of many of Berties adventures.more...

  • Watkyn Bassett

    Watkyn Bassett

    Sir Watkyn Bassett is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. Bassett is the father of Madeline Bassett and the uncle and guardian of Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.Bassett was at one time a magistrate in the Bosher Street magistrates court ...

  • Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

    Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

    Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose gen...

  • Alexander Charles Prosser

    Alexander Charles Prosser

    Alexander Charles "Oofy" Prosser, the Drones stout and pimpled tame millionaire in The Knightly Quest of Mervyn, The Luck of the Stiffhams, Alls Well with Bingo, Sonny Boy, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Word in Season, Freddie, Oofy, and t...

  • Augustus Fink-Nottle

    Augustus Fink-nottle

    Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle (Spink-Bottle to Berties Aunt Dahlia) is a fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeevess master Bertie Wooster and a possible memb...

  • Madeline Basset
  • Thomas Portarlington Travers

    Thomas Portarlington Travers

    Thomas Portarlington Travers, of Brinkley Court, Brinkley-cum-Snodsfield-in-the-Marsh, Worcestershire (sometimes given as Brinkley Manor, Market Snodsbury), London address 47 Charles St. Second husband of Aunt Dahlia in Clustering Round Young Bingo, Jeeve...

  • Pauline Stoker

    Pauline Stoker

    Pauline Stoker, Emeralds elder sister, a beauty so radiant that strong men whistle after her in the street. Daughter of J. Washburn Stoker, was engaged to Bertie for a period of about 48 hours in New York shortly before the action of Thank You, Jeev...

  • Marmaduke Chuffnell

    Marmaduke Chuffnell

    Marmaduke, "Chuffy" Chuffnell, fifth Baron Chuffnell, of Chuffnell Hall, Chuffnell Regis, Somersetshire. Nephew of Myrtle, Dowager Lady Chuffnell, from whose late husband he inherited his title. Attended private school, Eton, and Oxford with Bertie Wooste...

  • Eustace Oates

    Eustace Oates

    Constable Eustace Oates, peace officer at Totleigh-in-the-Wold, attacked by Stiffy Byngs Scottie Bartholomew in The Code of the Woosters, where Stinker Pinker steals his helmet; arrests Bertie in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. more...

  • Harold P. Pinker

    Harold P. Pinker

    Rev. Harold P. "Stinker" Pinker, Oxford friend of Bertie, attended Magdalen College where he boxed and played Rugby football; later played Rugby for England. Curate at Totleigh-in-the-Wold and engaged to Stiffy Byng in The Code of the Woosters and Stiff U...

  • Butterfield

    Butterfield

    Butterfield, Sir Watkyn Bassetts butler at Totleigh Towers in The Code of the Woosters, well stricken in years by Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. more...

  • Emerald Stoker
  • Major Plank

    Major Plank

    Major "Barmy" Plank, landed proprietor at Hockley-cum-Meston, Gloucestershire, invests a vicarage in Stinker Pinker to obtain a prop forward for the local Rugby football team in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, where he accuses Bertie of trying to chisel him out ...

  • Mr. Bellamy
  • Mrs. Bootle