Lord Brancaster

Also called the late Lord Brancaster

Jeeves's late former employer, owner of a parrot and a habitual prize-giver.

Connections

dealings

• owns Lord Brancaster's parrot^♞︎ 4
• presents the prizes at the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School^⁂ 1
• employs Jeeves 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as the late Lord Brancaster
2. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley
3. Bertie and Jeeves discover the double-laced jug is empty and realise Gussie has drunk it on top of the whisky just before presenting the prizes.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley