galahad threepwood

The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, the only genuinely distinguished Threepwood, Lady Constance Keeble's "deplorable brother" in many stories and novels. Younger brother of Clarence, Lord Emsworth; all but one of his ten sisters regard him as a waster. Lady Diana Phipps in Sunset at Blandings being the exception. When not on missions of mercy at Blandings Castle, lives in Duke St., St. James or at Berkeley Mansions, London W. 1, 4th floor, on a younger son's allowance. Author of scandal-ridden memoirs from the nineties, which he is writing in Summer Lightning. A member of the old Pelican Club in his youth, he once wanted to marry Dolly Henderson, to prevent which his family shipped him off to South Africa. Arrested so often in his prime that he got to know most of the policemen in the West End of London by their first names; has in fact known more policemen by their first names than any man in London. Seems never to have gone to bed till he was fifty. His age is given as 57 in Heavy Weather, …more