Beefy Bingham

Also called Beefy, Mr Bingham

Oxford friend of Bertie and Tuppy, now an East End parson running a Lads' Club and its entertainments in Bermondsey East.

In each book 2 books

• In Very Good, Jeeves
  Oxford friend of Bertie and Tuppy, now an East End parson running a Lads' Club and its entertainments in Bermondsey East.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Clergyman friend at whose Church Lads' entertainment Bertie once sang 'Sonny Boy'.

Connections

dealings

• was at school with Bertie Wooster 3
• runs the Lads' Club^⁂ 1
• was at school with Tuppy Glossop 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie, primed at the Goat and Grapes, scrapes through 'Sonny Boy'; Tuppy follows and is pelted off the stage with vegetables, but Cora has not yet arrived to see it.Chapter 4, the Oddfellows' Hall

Talked about, but not there

Very Good, Jeeves 4 scenes

1. After lunch with the massive Cora, Tuppy reveals he means to win her by singing 'Sonny Boy' at Beefy Bingham's East End entertainment, then bolts on hearing Aunt Dahlia is coming.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
2. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Mr Bingham
3. A black-eyed Tuppy drops Cora and goes back to Angela, and Jeeves reveals he tricked Cora into singing 'Sonny Boy' too, so that she got the bird and struck Tuppy, thinking he had played a practical joke on her.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
4. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat

Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene

1. On a bench in the shrubbery Pauline tells Bertie she is crazy about Chuffy and asks him to hint that Chuffy should speak, until Jeeves appears.Chapters 4–6, the rustic bench