The Wooster Papers

Cast

Brinkley

Also called Bingley, Mr Bingley, Rupert Bingley, The Gawd-help-us fellow, Gawd-help-us-ish member, another member of the Junior Ganymede, The person you mentioned at the breakfast table, a human wart like Bingley

Bertie's gloomy new valet from the agency, a would-be Bolshevik, who comes home drunk, takes the blacked-up Bertie for the Devil, burns down the cottage and holds the Dower House with a carving knife.

In each book 2 books
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Bertie's gloomy new valet from the agency, a would-be Bolshevik, who comes home drunk, takes the blacked-up Bertie for the Devil, burns down the cottage and holds the Dower House with a carving knife.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Rupert Bingley, Bertie's one-time valet who burned his cottage, now rich and living in Market Snodsbury; he steals the Junior Ganymede club book and, once Runkle's man, finds the porringer for him.

Connections

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Everyone and everything else (24)

Scenes they are in

Thank You, Jeeves 6 scenes
  1. Bertie surveys his peaceful cottage and the new yacht in the harbour, then finds Seabury tooting his car horn with an invitation to lunch from Chuffy.Chapter 3, the cottage garden
  2. Restless, Bertie tells his gloomy new valet Brinkley he will dine out in Bristol and gives him the evening off.Chapter 6, Seaview Cottage
  3. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage
  4. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall
  5. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House
  6. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House
Much Obliged, Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street
  2. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room, as Gawd-help-us-ish member
  3. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as Bingley
  4. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library, as Bingley

Talked about, but not there

Thank You, Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. Driving to the Hall, Seabury insults Bertie's suit, explains the smell at the Dower House, and demands five shillings protection money, which Bertie refuses.Chapter 3
  2. 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, as new personal attendant
  3. Back at the cottage at midnight, Bertie finds Pauline Stoker sitting up in his bed in his heliotrope pyjamas.Chapters 6–8, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage
  4. It is Sergeant Voules and his nephew Constable Dobson about the broken window; Bertie blames Brinkley and refuses to let them search the house, and Voules complains of the police being shackled.Chapter 8, the front door
  5. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall
  6. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study
  7. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall
  8. Over breakfast after his acquittal Jeeves reveals that he faked the cable about the contested will, and, since he will not serve a married man, asks to come back to Bertie, who gratefully accepts.Chapter 22, the small morning-room
Much Obliged, Jeeves 10 scenes
  1. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as Bingley
  3. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court, as Bingley
  4. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Bingley
  5. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house, as Bingley
  6. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Bingley
  7. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Bingley
  8. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Mr Bingley
  9. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as some minion of his
  10. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as Bingley