Bill Rowcester

Also called Bill, Lord Rowcester, Honest Patch Perkins, Billiken, Patch Rowcester, old Bill, Mr Belfry, William, Earl of Rowcester

William Belfry, ninth Earl of Rowcester, impoverished owner of Rowcester Abbey, engaged to Jill; secretly the Silver Ring bookie Honest Patch Perkins who welshed on Biggar, he steals Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pay him.

Connections

dealings

• owes money to, dreads Captain Biggar 51
• employs, keeps at his side Jeeves 49
• is engaged to, is suspected by Jill Wyvern 45
• knows of old, is host to Mrs Spottsworth 26
• is suspected by, is brother-in-law of Rory Carmoyle 14
• hopes to sell, owns Rowcester Abbey 14
• is sibling of, troubles Monica Carmoyle 13
• wants the pendant^✦︎ 8

Everyone and everything else (36)

• is to be thrashed by, is coldly regarded by Colonel Wyvern 5
• wears the moustache and patch^✦︎ 5
• claims to work for the Agricultural Board^⁂ 4
• is a friend of Bertie Wooster 4
• employs Ellen 4
• wears the mauve pyjamas^✦︎ 3
• employs Mrs Piggott 3
• is questioned by the police^⁂ 3
• is nephew or niece of Uncle George 3
• owns Bill's car^✦︎ 2
• rehearses Country Life^✦︎ 2
• hides the dower chest^✦︎ 2
• is a member of the Drones Club 2
• hopes to sell the abbey to the Home for Reclaimed Juvenile Delinquents^⁂ 2
• refuses to dress up as, sees the ghost of Lady Agatha 2
• employs Percy Wellbeloved 2
• is admired by Pomona^♞︎ 2
• owes money to three thousand and five pounds two and six^✦︎ 2
• forbids Aunt Emily 1
• backs Ballymore^♞︎ 1
• is reckoned duller than Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps 1
• wears Bill's grey topper^✦︎ 1
• owns Bill's Irish terrier^♞︎ 1
• pays Bill's telephone bill^✦︎ 1
• works for the bookmaking business^✦︎ 1
• wears the check coat^✦︎ 1
• is a member of the Commandos^⁂ 1
• is reckoned duller than Freddie Widgeon 1
• is in love with the Hippodrome girl 1
• detests the horseshoe tie^✦︎ 1
• dreads the jewel case^✦︎ 1
• is reckoned brighter than Pongo Twistleton 1
• borrows Sir Oscar Wopple 1
• rehearses the spider sequence^✦︎ 1
• is descendant of Tabasco Rowcester 1
• owes money to Whistler's Mother^♞︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Monica goes into the old living room, full of childhood memories, and Jill comes in from the garden and they embrace.Chapters 2–5, the living room, as Bill
2. Bill and the Carmoyles argue over whether Mrs Spottsworth will buy the Abbey, Rory tells Bill the police and a mystery man have been asking about his car, and Jeeves announces Mrs Spottsworth.Chapters 6–7, the living room, as Bill
3. Ellen announces a Captain Biggar; Mrs Spottsworth, thrilled to find an old friend, gets Monica to invite him to stay, and Monica's triumphant news turns Bill green.Chapter 7, Rowcester Abbey, as Bill
4. Over the port Biggar tells how Honest Patch Perkins welshed on his three-thousand-pound double, reveals the bookie's car number is Bill's, and is talked round by Jeeves's theory of a false number plate before going off to make a private telephone call.Chapter 8, the dining room
5. Left alone over a celebratory glass of port, Bill frets about Jill's cold looks at Mrs Spottsworth's chumminess, then congratulates Jeeves on lulling Biggar's suspicions and goes to join the ladies.Chapter 8, the dining room, as Bill
6. Jill coldly questions Bill about his Cannes intimacy with 'Rosie' Spottsworth, leaves to fetch her things for the night with a pointed remark, and Bill grumbles to Jeeves about women and snubs his Aunt Emily.Chapter 9, the living room, as Bill
7. Monica finds Bill tearing his hair and packs him off to the ruined chapel to charm Mrs Spottsworth into buying the house, and he goes, seeing a deposit as his way out of the Biggar menace.Chapter 9, the living room, as brother
8. In the moonlit garden Mrs Spottsworth all but invites Captain Biggar to propose, the code keeps him tongue-tied until Bill interrupts, and Biggar listens in disgust as Bill coos to her.Chapter 10, the garden, as Bill
9. Biggar tells Jill that Bill is a fortune hunter courting Mrs Spottsworth, then Monica opens the dower chest to show off its costumes and finds Patch Perkins's check coat, and Biggar draws out the black patch and demands a word with Bill.Chapters 10–11, the living room, as Bill
10. Biggar catches Bill and Jeeves from behind and proposes that Bill 'borrow' Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pawn for a bet on Ballymore, and after telling how he once bought it from a beachcomber in Shanghai and gave it to her, wins Bill's agreement.Chapters 12–13, the living room, as Patch Rowcester
11. Jill, gloomy and suspicious, learns Bill is in the garden with Mrs Spottsworth; Captain Biggar praises the spider sequence, and Bill returns to report that the pendant came off but fell down the front of Mrs Spottsworth's dress.Chapters 13–14, the living room, as the young master
12. With the abbey asleep, Jeeves comes to the sleepless Bill with a plan: he borrows Mrs Spottsworth's smelling salts on the pretext that Bill has fainted at the sight of Lady Agatha's ghost, so that she will hurry to the ruined chapel and leave her room free.Chapter 15, the Henry VIII Room, as Bill
13. Bill takes the pendant from Mrs Spottsworth's jewel case, but Pomona greets him with ecstatic screams and he bolts back to his room, watched by Jill.Chapter 15, the Queen Elizabeth Room, as Bill
14. Jeeves brings Bill a ring on a salver, sent back by Miss Wyvern.Chapter 15, the Henry VIII Room, as Bill
15. At lunch Bill can't eat for guilt while Rory calls Captain Biggar an awful liar, and Jeeves heads off a row with Mrs Spottsworth by announcing coffee.Chapter 17, the dining room, as Bill
16. Rory and Monica settle their Derby bets and go to consult Jeeves, and Mrs Spottsworth tells Bill the pendant was a present from Mr Spottsworth, so Biggar's story was false and Bill flees to Jeeves's pantry.Chapter 17, the living room, as Bill
17. Jeeves tips Ballymore, tells Rory and Monica that Jill has broken off with Bill, Rory's tactless consolation enrages Monica, and Jeeves advises the despairing Bill to repay Mrs Spottsworth for the pendant by selling her Rowcester Abbey.Chapter 18, Jeeves's pantry, as Bill
18. Jeeves, carrying the champagne through the living room, meets Jill coming in through the french window.Chapters 18–21, the living room, as prospective victim
19. Mrs Spottsworth announces her engagement and, on Jeeves's suggestion, buys the abbey to ship to California, saving Bill, while Jeeves gives notice to return to the expelled Bertie and Rory rings Harrige's about the TV.Chapter 22, the living room, as Bill

Talked about, but not there

1. Rosalinda Banks of Ohio marries and outlives two millionaires, the second killed by a lion in Kenya, and is now on her way to stay with Lord Rowcester.Chapter 1, as ninth Earl of Rowcester
2. Captain Biggar bursts in chasing the bookie who welshed on his double, meets Mrs Spottsworth again and hides his love for her, deciding a penniless hunter cannot court a rich widow.Chapter 1, the Goose and Gherkin, as Lord Rowcester
3. On the front steps of crumbling Rowcester Abbey, Rory proposes arson while Monica reveals she has invited the rich American Mrs Spottsworth to come and buy the place, and warns him not to put her off.Chapter 2, Rowcester Abbey, as William Egerton Bamfylde Ossingham Belfry
4. Rory tells Monica that Biggar has something on Bill and spins wild theories about stolen idols' eyes and an illegitimate baby, while Monica scoffs and tells him to stop running down Rowcester Abbey to Mrs Spottsworth.Chapter 9, the living room, as Bill
5. Pacing the lawn and kicking a frog, Captain Biggar broods that only money keeps him from proposing to Mrs Spottsworth, and is struck by an inspiration about her pendant.Chapter 12, the lawn, as Rowcester excrescence
6. Colonel Wyvern is cheeked by his teenage cook and butler, learns from Jill that she has broken off her engagement over Bill's goings-on with Mrs Spottsworth, and resolves to horsewhip Bill, though he will have to borrow Bill's horsewhip to do it.Chapter 16, Colonel Wyvern's study, as Young Rowcester