Claude

Also called Mr Claude, Poor old Claude

Bertie's cousin, Eustace's twin, an Oxford man who steals Sir Roderick's hat, bets on the Sermon Handicap, and dodges the boat for love of Marion Wardour.

In each book 3 books

• In The Inimitable Jeeves
  Bertie's cousin, Eustace's twin, an Oxford man who steals Sir Roderick's hat, bets on the Sermon Handicap, and dodges the boat for love of Marion Wardour.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  Bertie's cousin, one of the twins who put the cats in his bedroom.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Bertie's cousin, Eustace's twin, partner in the cat episode.

Connections

dealings

• is cousin of, was at school with Bertie Wooster 10
• is sibling of, is a rival in love of Eustace 7
• falls in love with, gives Marion Wardour 3
• is child of Aunt Emily 2
• is friends with Lord Rainsby 2
• is after the Seekers^⁂ 2
• is nephew or niece of Uncle George 2
• is nephew or niece of Aunt Agatha 1

Everyone and everything else (11)

• plants the cats^♞︎ 1
• pinches the cigarette-case^✦︎ 1
• is helped out by Jeeves 1
• pinches the motor-lorry^✦︎ 1
• is a member of the reading-party^⁂ 1
• scouts the form of the Rev. Francis Heppenstall 1
• scouts the form of the Rev. G. Hayward 1
• pinches Sir Roderick Glossop 1
• pinches Sir Roderick's top-hat^✦︎ 1
• is a member of the syndicate^⁂ 1
• is arrested by Vine Street police station 1

Scenes they are in

1. Out for a stroll, Bertie is waylaid by Claude, Eustace and Lord Rainsby, up from Oxford for the day, and Eustace touches him for a fiver.Chapter 7, Hyde Park Corner
2. Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
3. The syndicate backs Heppenstall at seven to one, he preaches thirty-six minutes and Steggles cuts his odds, and then the twins report that G. Hayward of Lower Bingley is a dark horse, so Bertie plans to ask Heppenstall to preach his Brotherly Love sermon.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
4. The twins breeze into the flat, correct the story of their expulsion, and announce they mean to make a night of it at Ciro's.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
5. Bertie flags through a night at Ciro's and chemmy while the twins go strong until nine in the morning, when he says goodbye and staggers to bed.Chapter 16, Ciro's
6. Claude, then Eustace, turns up at Bertie's bedside, each having given the other the slip at Waterloo for love of Marion Wardour, and both settle in at the flat.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
7. Told to stop wandering about London, the twins decide to go about in whiskers and false noses, and Jeeves offers Bertie no sympathy.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
8. With Eustace hiding under the sofa, Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to take Uncle George to Harrogate after a whiskered burglar stole his cigarette-case, and Eustace realises Claude robbed their uncle.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
9. With the twins not speaking, Claude suddenly announces he will sail for South Africa tomorrow and begs Bertie to say nothing to Eustace.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat

Talked about, but not there

The Inimitable Jeeves 9 scenes

1. At lunch Honoria announces Bertie must get rid of Jeeves when they marry, and Aunt Agatha then warns him that Sir Roderick Glossop, doubting his sanity, is coming to lunch at his flat next day.Chapter 7, Aunt Agatha's house
2. The cats bolt from the bedroom and Lord Rainsby explains the thefts were for the Seekers club, then borrows a tenner to bail out the arrested twins.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
3. Sweltering in London, Bertie gets a letter from his cousin Eustace at Twing urging him to come down for a sporting event, with a baffling race-card of clergymen for a 'Sermon Handicap' on the back, and decides to go.Chapter 13, Bertie's flat
4. Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to put up the twins Claude and Eustace, sent down from Oxford, for their last night before sailing for South Africa, and Jeeves stays frosty over Bertie's new spats.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
5. Aunt Agatha frets that the twins may have come to harm, because Uncle George has seen the 'phantasm' of Eustace in the street.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
6. Marion Wardour complains to Bertie, with Jeeves in the room, that the twins are hounding her, and shows the gold cigarette-case Claude forced on her.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
7. Jeeves reveals Eustace has booked a berth on the same boat, and Bertie crows that things sorted themselves out without Jeeves's help.Chapter 16, the kitchen
8. Marion's fiver for Jeeves reveals that his ruse of her sailing to South Africa got rid of the twins, his pick-me-up has cured Uncle George of Harrogate, and Bertie gives up the spats, which Jeeves has already burned.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
9. Lunching Bingo at the Senior Liberal Club while the Drones is being cleaned, Bertie watches him fall instantly in love with their waitress.Chapter 17, the Senior Liberal Club

Jeeves in the Offing 1 scene

1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat

Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive