The Wooster Papers

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Lord Bittlesham

Also called old Bittlesham, Bittlesham, the elder Mr Little, Old Little, old Mr Little, Mr Little, Uncle, Bingo’s uncle

Mortimer Little, Bingo's fat, food-loving uncle, a retired liniment magnate and devotee of Rosie M. Banks, who marries his cook, is made a peer and owns Ocean Breeze.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    Mortimer Little, Bingo's fat, food-loving uncle, a retired liniment magnate and devotee of Rosie M. Banks, who marries his cook, is made a peer and owns Ocean Breeze.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Bingo's uncle, represented by a photograph in the drawing-room.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (8)

Scenes they are in

  1. Hailed by old Little as the author of Rosie M. Banks's novels, Bertie wins his blessing for Bingo's marriage to a waitress, but learns the allowance cannot be raised because old Little is marrying his cook.Chapter 2, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens, as the uncle
  2. In the park Bertie meets Bingo's uncle, now Lord Bittlesham and owner of Ocean Breeze, and the two are loudly abused by a bearded Red Dawn orator.Chapter 11, Hyde Park, as Bingo Little’s uncle
  3. Bertie meets a terrified Lord Bittlesham with Bingo, who privately admits he wrote the threatening letter himself to get a fifty-pound cheque to put on Ocean Breeze.Chapter 12, St James's Street, as old Bittlesham
  4. Ocean Breeze loses, Bingo in his beard denounces his uncle to the crowd, and Butt tears off the beard to reveal him as Bittlesham's nephew before a policeman hauls both away.Chapter 12, Goodwood, as old Bittlesham
  5. Melted by the novel, Lord Bittlesham restores Bingo's allowance but cools on the marriage when he learns the waitress is not the same one as before.Chapter 17, as the old boy
  6. Bertie quotes The Woman who Braved All at Lord Bittlesham, who thinks Bertie is its author, is won over and consents to Bingo's marriage.Chapter 18, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens, as old Bittlesham
  7. Lord Bittlesham opens Bingo's door and flees in fright, and Bingo explains that Jeeves fixed everything by telling the old man Bertie is a lunatic who believes he is Rosie M. Banks, with Sir Roderick Glossop backing it up.Chapter 18, Bingo's flat

Talked about, but not there

The Inimitable Jeeves 23 scenes
  1. Over morning tea Jeeves advises against backing Privateer, reveals he has sent back Bertie's mauve shirts, and reports that Bingo Little rang about a matter of importance.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Mortimer Little
  2. At a tea-shop near the Ritz Bingo introduces Mabel the waitress and begs Bertie to get Jeeves to find a way of breaking the news to his uncle.Chapter 1, the tea-shop, as his uncle
  3. Jeeves reveals his understanding with Mortimer Little's cook and proposes that Bingo read Rosie M. Banks novels to his gouty uncle to soften him up about marrying a waitress.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as his uncle
  4. Over an egg beaten up in sherry, a hoarse Bingo reports that the Rosie M. Banks novels are winning over his uncle and that he has a pippin of an idea to clinch things.Chapter 2, as Old Little
  5. Bertie tells Jeeves the scheme is working and praises his brains as unrivalled.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as his uncle
  6. Bingo announces that his recovered uncle wants Bertie to lunch, and bullies a reluctant Bertie into breaking the news of his engagement to the old man.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as his uncle
  7. Bertie breaks it to Jeeves that his fiancée Miss Watson is marrying old Little, and Jeeves reveals he wanted just that, since his new understanding is with Bingo's waitress.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as old Mr Little
  8. At Buck's, Bingo Little, now tutoring the Glossop kid at Ditteredge, declares at the top of his voice that he worships Honoria Glossop.Chapter 5, Buck's, as my uncle
  9. Bingo reveals he was the bearded orator, explains he is courting the revolutionary Charlotte Rowbotham, and invites himself and her family to tea at Bertie's flat.Chapter 11, the Drones Club, as your uncle
  10. Jeeves admits he let slip Bingo's identity to Butt, ending both Bingo's romance with Charlotte, and Bertie tells him to collar all the money on the dressing-table.Chapter 12, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as his lordship
  11. Bertie finds Bingo in his room, over Charlotte and now madly in love with Lady Cynthia, and is shooed away so Bingo can write poetry to her.Chapter 13, Bingo's room, as your uncle
  12. 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 my uncle
  13. 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 his uncle
  14. 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, as his uncle
  15. 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, as your uncle
  16. Bingo, now engaged to the waitress, talks Bertie into posing again as Rosie M. Banks to win back his allowance from his uncle, starting with a signed copy of The Woman who Braved All.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as my uncle
  17. Bertie suffers through The Woman who Braved All just before a note arrives inviting him to lunch with Bittlesham.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as old Bittlesham
  18. Bertie reports the allowance won but the blessing wobbly, and Bingo blames him and hints that things are awkward.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as Uncle
  19. Bingo drifts in with a flower in his buttonhole, babbles, and announces that he is married.Chapters 17–18, Bertie's flat, as your uncle
  20. Bertie meets the quietly dressed bride in the hall and the three take a taxi.Chapter 18
  21. Bingo bursts in to say his bride revealed herself as Rosie M. Banks, and his uncle, realising he was hoaxed, called her an impostor.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as my uncle
  22. Bingo phones to say his allowance is stopped and both his uncle and wife are coming to demand explanations, so Jeeves packs Bertie off to shoot in Norfolk while he stays to pacify the parties.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat
  23. Bertie spends a rainy, jumpy week in Norfolk and decides to go home and lie low.Chapter 18, Norfolk, as young Bingo’s uncle
Carry On, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Finding his photograph missing, Bertie blames Mary and escapes through the window while the parlourmaid goes to ask her.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room