Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright

Also called Catsmeat, Meadowes, Mr Pirbright, Pirbright, Claude Cattermole Pirbright, Catsmeat Potter-Birbright, Old Catsmeat, C.C. Pirbright

Actor and Drones member, who gives Bertie the idea of a theatrical agent and later warns him about Waterbury.

In each book 10 books

• In Other Stories
  Actor and Drones member, who gives Bertie the idea of a theatrical agent and later warns him about Waterbury.
• In Right Ho, Jeeves
  Who once let off a police rattle behind Bertie at the Drones.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  A friend who picked up long words while staying at Bertie's flat.
• In The Code of the Woosters
  A Drones friend of Bertie's and expert roll-thrower.
• In Joy in the Morning
  Bertie's Drones friend, who takes Boko's suitcase of costumes by mistake.
• In The Mating Season
  Claude Cattermole Pirbright, actor, Corky's brother and Bertie's old schoolfellow, in love with Gertrude Winkworth; he comes to Deverill Hall as the valet Meadowes, gets engaged to Queenie by mistake, plays in the cross-talk act and elopes with Gertrude.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Bertie's boyhood friend, who gave a farewell supper before leaving for Hollywood; Bertie uses his name to cover Florence's phone call.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  Bertie's actor friend, who does a motoring sketch at the Drones smoking concert and once left the stage mid-act of Charley's Aunt with a nose bleed.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  One of Bertie's oldest friends, source of his unrepeatable story.
• In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  Bertie's friend, of whom Jeeves once said melancholy had marked him for her own.

Connections

dealings

• is friend of, poses as the valet of Bertie Wooster 43
• is in love with, courts Gertrude Winkworth 29
• is sibling of, is doted on by Corky Pirbright 14
• is disliked by, is to be socked by Gussie Fink-Nottle 14
• sympathises with, is engaged to Queenie 10
• is helped by, consults Jeeves 8
• sees as a rival, dislikes Esmond Haddock 7
• performs, writes the Pat and Mike cross-talk act^✦︎ 5

Everyone and everything else (28)

• is a member of the Drones Club 4
• visits, is confided in by Madeline Bassett 4
• is in awe of Silversmith 4
• dislikes, is seen as a rival by Constable Dobbs 3
• has their marriage opposed by, is disapproved of by Dame Daphne Winkworth 3
• is disliked by, has their marriage opposed by Esmond's aunts^⁂ 3
• is nephew or niece of, is suspected by the Rev. Sidney Pirbright 3
• was a pupil of Aubrey Upjohn 2
• borrows Bertie's two-seater^✦︎ 2
• writes the sprained-wrist letter^✦︎ 2
• dislikes Thos 2
• has a heavy sentence demanded by Aunt Charlotte 1
• imitates Beatrice Lillie 1
• takes Boko's suitcase^✦︎ 1
• is child of Catsmeat's father 1
• is grandchild of Catsmeat's grandfather 1
• gives Catsmeat's note^✦︎ 1
• tells Catsmeat's story^✦︎ 1
• mocks the code of the Woosters^✦︎ 1
• is child of Elsie Cattermole 1
• wears the green beards^✦︎ 1
• drinks Jeeves's pick-me-up^✦︎ 1
• is unnerved by the Joke Goods^✦︎ 1
• goes after the key of the cellar^✦︎ 1
• wields the magnums^✦︎ 1
• performs at Market Snodsbury Town Hall 1
• drinks the orange juice^✦︎ 1
• insults the police^⁂ 1

Scenes they are in

Other Stories 2 scenes

1. Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright's stories of theatrical agents give Bertie the idea of hiring an actress through one.Chapter 3, the Drones Club
2. Waterbury phones to say all is set, and Catsmeat tells Bertie that Waterbury once chiselled Oofy Prosser out of two thousand pounds.Chapter 3, the Drones Club

The Mating Season 13 scenes

1. Jeeves briefs a reluctant Bertie on Esmond Haddock, his five aunts and Gussie's coolness with Madeline Bassett before a low-spirited Catsmeat Pirbright is shown in.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Mr Pirbright
2. A low-spirited Catsmeat reveals that Corky is the vicar's niece who roped Bertie into the concert, explains his thwarted engagement to Gertrude Winkworth, and gets Bertie to guard her from Esmond Haddock, in return agreeing to give Gussie dinner.Chapter 2, as Catsmeat
3. After seeing Thos off to school, Bertie comes home to find Corky and her dog Sam Goldwyn, hears of her break with Esmond Haddock and her feud with Constable Dobbs, and then a hung-over Catsmeat reveals that Gussie waded in the Trafalgar Square fountain and got fourteen days.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat, as Catsmeat
4. Jeeves proposes that someone go to Deverill Hall as Gussie, Catsmeat flatly refuses, and Bertie gives in and sets off in Gussie's name, with Corky's dog Sam Goldwyn left on his hands.Chapter 4, as Catsmeat
5. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Claude Cattermole Pirbright
6. Back at the Hall Bertie finds Catsmeat lying dreamily on his bed, smoking his cigarettes.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
7. Catsmeat bursts into Bertie's room with the news, picked up from Silversmith, that Aunt Agatha is coming to stay at Deverill Hall.Chapter 12, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
8. Catsmeat returns from London with Jeeves's plan to keep Aunt Agatha away by luring Thos from school to visit Corky; after he leaves, Bertie breaks the code of the Woosters, opens Gussie's telegrams, and learns that Madeline is arriving at Deverill Hall tomorrow.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
9. Bertie waylays Catsmeat returning from the pictures with a tearful Queenie, shows him the telegram, and Catsmeat promises to come to Bertie's room after dinner with a plan.Chapter 14, the main gate, as Catsmeat
10. Bertie goes out to the road to waylay Catsmeat, who speeds past without seeing him, and heads off gloomily for breakfast and the train back.Chapter 17, the road outside The Larches, as Catsmeat
11. Catsmeat tells Bertie how, kissing a weeping Queenie in brotherly fashion, he was caught by Silversmith and Gertrude, found himself engaged to Queenie, and has had his elopement with Gertrude cancelled.Chapter 21, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
12. At the village concert the Kegley-Bassingtons and George's 'Ben Battle' are endured, Catsmeat and Gussie's Pat and Mike act dies, and Esmond's hunting song brings the house down until the standees chant him back on over Poppy's dance.Chapter 22, the village hall, as Catsmeat
13. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 2 scenes

1. In the Charing Cross Road the greasy agent Jas Waterbury takes fifteen quid to supply his niece Trixie, a Fairy Queen, as Bertie's pretend fiancée.Chapter 3, Jas Waterbury's office, as Catsmeat
2. With Trixie on his lap Bertie expects Honoria but gets Eggleston, who, told Trixie is Bertie's fiancée, announces that he and Honoria are engaged again.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Catsmeat

Right Ho, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Standing nervously by the outhouse at 12.30, Bertie doubts Jeeves's scheme but rings the Brinkley Court fire bell.Chapter 22, the outhouse

Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Stoker shows Bertie into a guest state-room, slams and locks the door on him, and ignores his calls.Chapters 11–12, the state-room

The Code of the Woosters 3 scenes

1. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
2. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall
3. Gussie tells Bertie that Aunt Dahlia arrives tonight, explains how Jeeves's advice to despise his audience cured his shyness, and reveals he has written his scorn of Spode and Sir Watkyn in a notebook he has now lost.Chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room

Joy in the Morning 3 scenes

1. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Chapters 6–7, the Bokeries
2. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Chapters 8–11, Wee Nooke
3. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Chapters 24–25, the sitting-room, as Catsmeat

The Mating Season 14 scenes

1. At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.Chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
2. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall, as Mr Pirbright
3. Gussie, furious at being taken for Bertie and loathing Catsmeat, rubbishes the Pat and Mike cross-talk act and refuses to hit a policeman with an umbrella, until Corky arrives and Bertie leaves her to win him round.Chapter 9, the post office, as Catsmeat
4. Gussie returns besotted with Corky and keen on the act, reports that Sam Goldwyn bit Dobbs and was arrested, that Catsmeat will now play Mike, and hands Bertie the Christopher Robin poems he must recite at the concert.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as her brother
5. Bertie copies out the letter, posts it at the post office and is at once hailed by Corky.Chapters 11–12, the post office, as Catsmeat
6. Bertie finds Catsmeat's note saying he has gone to London with a superb plan for Madeline, then Gussie borrows the pink-lozenged tie for Corky and reveals he has written to Madeline breaking off the engagement.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
7. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches, as Catsmeat
8. Back at King's Deverill station, Bertie clouts the cheeky Thomas, then learns from Corky that Thomas plans to cosh Dobbs and that Catsmeat kept Madeline away by telling her Bertie loves her hopelessly, while Corky puts off dropping Gussie until he has done a mysterious little job for her.Chapter 18, King's Deverill station, as Catsmeat
9. Walking back to the hall brooding on Corky's job, Bertie runs into Esmond Haddock.Chapters 18–20, the road to the hall, as Catsmeat
10. Dame Daphne catches Bertie in the hall and is delighted to hear 'Augustus' went to Wimbledon on the milk train to see Madeline, and Silversmith announces that his daughter Queenie is engaged to Meadowes.Chapter 21, the hall at Deverill Hall, as the happy man
11. Outside the inn Gussie, in his green beard, gulps brandy before going to steal Corky's dog from Dobbs's cottage, confident Dobbs is at the concert; then Jeeves returns to say Esmond will deputize and that Dobbs has gone home to his cottage.Chapters 23–24, the Goose and Cowslip, as Catsmeat
12. Back in his room, Bertie hears from Gussie that his love for Corky died up the tree, tells him Madeline has been squared, and sees him dash off to Wimbledon just before Esmond Haddock comes in.Chapters 24–25, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
13. Jeeves reports he has got Gussie out of his beard, Bertie tells him Gussie is cured of Corky and off to Madeline and that Esmond needs a way to defy his aunts, and Jeeves leaves to help his Uncle Charlie with the refreshments just before Esmond returns.Chapter 25, Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat
14. Bertie congratulates Jeeves on squaring every loose end, then learns that Aunt Agatha has arrived, that Thos has blown the gaff, and resolves to go down and pull an Esmond Haddock on her.Chapter 27, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Catsmeat

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 3 scenes

1. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat
2. Over kippers at the Mottled Oyster Bertie fails to reconcile Florence with Stilton, and when the club is raided she bolts and Bertie trips the pursuing constable and is arrested.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster
3. Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's flat, as Catsmeat

Jeeves in the Offing 2 scenes

1. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn
2. Phyllis calls Upjohn away to the telephone just as Bobbie gives the cue, then Augustus spits at Poppet, who knocks Bertie into the lake, and Kipper dives in and rescues Bertie instead.Chapter 15, the lake

Much Obliged, Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's
2. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row
3. 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

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1 scene

1. Bertie, glum over his aunt's ruined plan, tells Jeeves about the telephone call over cocktails and confesses he is engaged.Chapters 13–14, Wee Nooke