the Rev. Francis Heppenstall

Also called Heppenstall, old Heppenstall, Mr Heppenstall, the Rev., Reverend Mr Heppenstall, Rev. Francis Heppenstall, The Reverend Mr Heppenstall, The favourite

The vicar of Twing and famous coach, Mary Burgess's uncle, who runs the choir and the school-treat sports and is the favourite in the Sermon Handicap until hay-fever scratches him.

Connections

dealings

• admires, coaches Rupert Steggles 4
• is uncle of the Rev. James Bates 3
• coaches Bertie Wooster 2
• employs Brookfield 2
• preaches, lends the Brotherly Love sermon^✦︎ 2
• threatens, expels Harold 2
• disqualifies Bessie Clay 1
• gives Bingo Little 1

Everyone and everything else (17)

• has form scouted by Claude 1
• is treated by the doctor 1
• calls off the Fathers' Quarter-Mile^✦︎ 1
• is stood in for by Heppenstall's curate 1
• disqualifies Jane Parker 1
• is tipped off by Jeeves 1
• is uncle of Mary Burgess 1
• is parent of Master Heppenstall 1
• is friends with Mr Spettigue 1
• presents as a prize the pewter mug^✦︎ 1
• coaches the reading-party^⁂ 1
• employs the Rev. Hubert Wingham 1
• disqualifies Rosie Jukes 1
• disqualifies Sarah Mills 1
• is scratched from the Sermon Handicap^✦︎ 1
• is backed by the syndicate^⁂ 1
• presents as a prize the work-bag^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Arriving late for dinner at Twing Hall, Bertie sits next to Cynthia, who points out the local clergy and complains that Bingo keeps gazing at her oddly, which Bertie diagnoses as love.Chapter 13, the dining-room, as Heppenstall
2. 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, as Heppenstall
3. Bertie persuades a flattered Heppenstall to preach his fifty-minute sermon on Brotherly Love, uncut, next Sunday.Chapter 13, Twing Vicarage, as Heppenstall
4. Harold breaks up Heppenstall's sermon with piercing squeals and is marched off to the vestry.Chapter 14, Twing church, as Heppenstall
5. Heppenstall disbelieves Harold's beetle story and expels him from the choir, and Steggles tells Bertie his bets are lost.Chapter 14, the vestry, as Heppenstall
6. Steggles nobbles Mrs Penworthy with cake, Prudence Baxter finishes down the field, but Heppenstall disqualifies the first four for taking a manservant's bribe and gives Prudence the prize.Chapter 14, the Hall grounds, as Heppenstall

Talked about, but not there

1. 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, as the vicar
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, as The Rev.
3. Eustace phones to say Heppenstall has hay-fever and will be scratched, and Bertie has him hedge another fiver all round on G. Hayward.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as the favourite
4. Heppenstall's note reveals that Bates is preaching the Brotherly Love sermon at Gandle-by-the-Hill, on which Jeeves has a tenner thanks to inside information from Brookfield, and Bingo learns that Bates is engaged to Cynthia.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Heppenstall
5. Bingo proposes betting on Steggles's book for the school-treat sports, Bertie forms a syndicate with Jeeves, and Jeeves tips Harold the page-boy for the Choir-Boys' Handicap.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Twing, as the vicar
6. Bingo, off to London with Egbert, insists Bertie go to evening service to guard Harold, who is on his last warning in the choir.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as the vicar
7. Bingo wires that he is in love at last, and Jeeves, already informed by Brookfield, identifies the girl as Mary Burgess and urges Bertie to go to Twing and help.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Reverend Mr Heppenstall
8. Jeeves explains that the curate Wingham is Bingo's favoured rival and advises Bingo to make friends with Mary's small brother.Chapter 15, Twing Hall, as Mr Heppenstall
9. Jeeves reports that Steggles is making a book on the romance and lured Bingo into an eating contest that made Wilfred ill and turned Mary against him; he has advised Bingo to take up good works.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Mr Heppenstall
10. Bertie finds Bingo asleep in his bed; Bingo explains that good works have softened Mary and that, with Wingham down with mumps, he has taken over the village Christmas Entertainment and is in town to pinch material from revues.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as old Heppenstall