The Wooster Papers

Cast

Constable Dobbs

Also called Dobbs, Ernest Dobbs, Police Constable Dobbs, Constable Ernest Dobbs, Ernie, Mike, the flatty Dobbs, the heel Dobbs

Police Constable Ernest Dobbs, King's Deverill's policeman and village atheist, engaged to Queenie; he impounds Sam Goldwyn, is coshed up a tree, sees the light and is reconciled with Queenie.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Mating Season
    Police Constable Ernest Dobbs, King's Deverill's policeman and village atheist, engaged to Queenie; he impounds Sam Goldwyn, is coshed up a tree, sees the light and is reconciled with Queenie.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    The policeman at Deverill Hall whom Jeeves once laid out with the cosh.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (11)

Scenes they are in

  1. Walking on, Bertie is horrified to see Gussie coming out of the village police station closely escorted by Constable Dobbs.Chapters 20–21, the police station, as Constable Ernest Dobbs
  2. Corky drives off with the rescued Sam Goldwyn, Dobbs chases Gussie up a tree, and Jeeves lays the constable out with a cosh and leads Gussie away to remove his beard.Chapter 24, the road, as Dobbs
  3. 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 Dobbs
  4. 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

Talked about, but not there

The Mating Season 11 scenes
  1. 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 Dobbs
  2. 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 Police Constable Dobbs
  3. 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 Dobbs
  4. 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 the local policeman
  5. 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 Dobbs
  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 the flatty Dobbs
  7. 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 a rozzer
  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 the heel Dobbs
  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 Dobbs
  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 Dobbs
  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 Dobbs
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2 scenes
  1. Bertie catches Jeeves just as he is driving off to London and arranges to go with him to collect the cosh Jeeves confiscated from young Thos, so as to face Stilton armed.Chapter 16
  2. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den