frederick altamont cornwallis twistleton

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, living at Ickenham Hall, Bishop's Ickenham, Hants. Valerie and Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton's Uncle Fred in Uncle Fred Flits By, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile. Known in school as Barmy; for years a younger son, spent twenty of those years in the U.S.: punched cows in Arizona, jerked soda, did a bit of newspaper work, prospected in the Mojave Desert. A sort of elderly Psmith, now sixty if a day and married to an American, Jane, who threatens to skin him with a blunt knife if he strays from Ickenham Hall-particularly to London, which he does whenever her back is turned, and steps high, wide and handsome, acting a youngish 22 (much to Pongo's dismay). By living in the country he generates, as it were, a store of loopiness which expends itself with frightful violence on his rare visits to the center of things. In the late afternoon of his life he retains, together with a j…more