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Wodehouse (/ ˈ w ʊ d h aʊ s / "wood-house") is an English surname and barony. The baronetcy was created in 1611, the barony in 1797. Since 1866 it has been held by the Earl of Kimberley , the current Baron Wodehouse being John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley (born 1951).
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.
The Wodehouse family is an English aristocratic family headed by the Earl of Kimberley. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The modern surname may derive from any of several places called Woodhouse or Wodehouse in England, and people who share the surname are not necessarily related to the Womburne Woodhouse family, or to one another. Notable people with the surname include: Airini Woodhouse (1896–1989), New Zealand community leader, historian, and author
In some books the name of Bertie's headmaster is given as "Arnold Abney", but he appears to be the same person. Aubrey Upjohn is also a minor Drones Club character. He is the headmaster of St. Asaph's preparatory school in Bramley-on-Sea, which Freddie Widgeon attended in the past, in " Bramley Is So Bracing ".
[5] [n 1] The first name was rapidly elided to "Plum", the name by which Wodehouse became known to family and friends. [ 6 ] Mother and son sailed for Hong Kong, where for his first two years Wodehouse was raised by a Chinese amah (nurse), alongside his elder brothers Philip Peveril John (1877–1951) and Ernest Armine (1879–1936).
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ ˈ w ʊ d h aʊ s /; 1881–1975) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter.After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. [1]
The following articles are about fictional characters from the stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. See also the special lists at the top of the category. See also the special lists at the top of the category.