the Rev. James Bates

Also called Bates, James, Mr Bates, young Bates, Rev. James Bates, The Reverend James Bates

Heppenstall's nephew, an Eton master standing in at Gandle-by-the-Hill, a candidate for a headmastership and secretly engaged to Lady Cynthia.

Connections

dealings

• is nephew or niece of the Rev. Francis Heppenstall 3
• competes with Bates's rival 1
• was at school with Bertie Wooster 1
• is accused by Bingo Little 1
• preaches the Brotherly Love sermon^✦︎ 1
• is sized up by the head of the Board of Governors 1
• is after the headmastership^✦︎ 1
• is backed by Jeeves 1

Everyone and everything else (3)

• is engaged to Lady Cynthia 1
• has the consent of Lord Wickhammersley 1
• stands in for Mr Spettigue 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 Bates

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 Bates
2. Bertie persuades a flattered Heppenstall to preach his fifty-minute sermon on Brotherly Love, uncut, next Sunday.Chapter 13, Twing Vicarage, as Bates
3. 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 Bates