Lord Wickhammersley

Also called old Wickhammersley

The owner of Twing Hall, Cynthia's father, an old friend of Bertie's late father, Bertie's host and Bingo's employer.

Connections

dealings

• is parent of Egbert 2
• invites Bertie Wooster 1
• is friends with Bertie's father 1
• employs Charles 1
• employs Harold 1
• employs the head gardener 1
• is parent of Lady Cynthia 1
• is married to Lady Wickhammersley 1

Everyone and everything else (3)

• consents to the marriage of the Rev. James Bates 1
• lends the school-treat^✦︎ 1
• presents as a prize the work-bag^✦︎ 1

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
2. 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 old Wickhammersley
3. 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 an earl
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 his lordship
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
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
7. Jeeves takes the news calmly and reveals he had Bingo back the outsider Prudence Baxter in the Egg and Spoon Race.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as his lordship
8. 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
9. 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