Lord Worplesdon

Also called Uncle Percy, Worplesdon, old Worplesdon, Father, Percival, Lord Worplesdon, Percy, Florence’s father, old W.

Florence and Edwin's father, Jeeves's former employer, who once chased young Bertie with a hunting-crop.

In each book 7 books

• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Florence and Edwin's father, Jeeves's former employer, who once chased young Bertie with a hunting-crop.
• In Joy in the Morning
  Uncle Percy, shipping magnate of the Pink Funnel Line, Aunt Agatha's husband, father of Florence and Edwin and Nobby's guardian, who must meet Chichester Clam in secret.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Florence Craye's father, recently married to Aunt Agatha and made to give up smoking.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  Bertie's tough Uncle Percy, who once held the record for being chucked out of Covent Garden balls, and whom Bertie once abused so that Boko could defend him.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Bertie's uncle, Aunt Agatha's husband, soured by a vegetarian diet.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Bertie's uncle, Florence's father.
• In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  Aunt Agatha's husband, the uncle who once chased Bertie a mile with a hunting crop for smoking his cigar.

Connections

dealings

• is uncle of, is dreaded by Bertie Wooster 73
• withholds consent to the marriage of, loathes Boko Fittleworth 48
• is married to, dreads Aunt Agatha 21
• puts up, baffles Jeeves 17
• is parent of, longs to thrash Edwin 16
• thinks poorly of J. Chichester Clam 14
• is guardian of, is uncle of Nobby Hopwood 13
• is parent of Florence Craye 12

Everyone and everything else (30)

• is future father-in-law of, has power over Stilton Cheesewright 8
• attends, denies the East Wibley fancy dress ball^✦︎ 3
• knows Roddy Hopwood 3
• was at school with Uncle Willoughby 3
• owns Wee Nooke 3
• is shut in Boko's garage 2
• forgets, gives the insurance letter^✦︎ 2
• employs Maple 2
• owns the Pink Funnel Line^⁂ 2
• is unnerved by the portrait of Aunt Agatha^✦︎ 2
• wears the Sindbad the Sailor costume^✦︎ 2
• takes the agreement^✦︎ 1
• borrows Bertie's herring-bone tweed^✦︎ 1
• scoffs at the brown paper^✦︎ 1
• lives at Bumpleigh Hall 1
• attends East Wibley 1
• employs the gardener 1
• is won over by the ginger whiskers^✦︎ 1
• owns the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall 1
• wants the horsewhip^✦︎ 1
• uses the hunting-crop^✦︎ 1
• tells the Joke Goods^✦︎ 1
• thinks poorly of the police^⁂ 1
• loathes the Surprise Salt Shaker^✦︎ 1
• gives the ten shillings^✦︎ 1
• carouses with Tottie 1
• takes Uncle Percy's shoes^✦︎ 1
• goes to Vine Street police station 1
• refuses to go along with the warrant^✦︎ 1
• writes the written consent^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Chapters 8–11, Wee Nooke, as Uncle Percy
2. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Chapters 13–15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Uncle Percy
3. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Chapters 21–22, Uncle Percy's study, as the relative
4. Bertie spends the day stiffening Uncle Percy's nerve until Clam telephones to say he'll come to the ball as Edward the Confessor, and Uncle Percy confesses how a Covent Garden ball once cost him his engagement to Aunt Agatha.Chapter 24, Uncle Percy's study, as Uncle Percy
5. Boko scolds the late Bertie and sends him to the bar, where a very tight Uncle Percy, dressed in shoes much too small, boasts of having got the better of Clam and agrees to go and sit in a car.Chapter 26, East Wibley Town Hall, as Old Worplesdon
6. With Uncle Percy shoeless in Boko's car, Bertie pleads Boko's cause; Percy rails against Fittleworth, softens on hearing Boko once kicked Edwin, and gives in when told Hollywood is six thousand miles away.Chapter 26, Boko's car, as the old relative
7. Rushing to the garage to escape, Bertie hears Uncle Percy inside cursing Fittleworth and realises Boko unknowingly drove him home asleep in the back of the car.Chapters 27–28, Boko's garage, as a human soul
8. Bertie tells Boko and Nobby that Uncle Percy was locked in the garage, Uncle Percy storms in demanding a horsewhip to thrash Boko, and collapses when Jeeves mentions that her ladyship returned last night.Chapters 28–29, the Bokeries, as Uncle Percy
9. Stilton brings his warrant for Bertie's arrest, but Uncle Percy denies going to the ball, swears Bertie never left the house, denounces Stilton as drunk and has him shown the door.Chapter 29, the dining-room, as Uncle Percy
10. Jeeves confesses that Aunt Agatha never came home, and he and Bertie slip away at once while Uncle Percy sings in the bath.Chapter 29, the kitchen, as Uncle Percy

Talked about, but not there

Carry On, Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Jeeves cures Bertie’s hangover, gets hired, and disapproves of his fiancée and check suit.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Florence makes Bertie promise to steal and destroy his uncle’s scandalous memoirs.Chapter 1, the smoking-room, as her father
3. Bertie sacks Jeeves for posting the memoirs, and Jeeves explains why marrying Florence would have been a mistake.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby

Joy in the Morning 29 scenes

1. Bertie explains why he has always avoided Steeple Bumpleigh, home of Aunt Agatha, Lord Worplesdon, Florence and Edwin, turning down Boko's invitations and Jeeves's hints about the fishing.Chapter 1, Steeple Bumpleigh, as my Uncle Percy
2. Over breakfast Jeeves reports a visit from Nobby Hopwood and Stilton, is summoned urgently to Lord Worplesdon's office, and asks for an edition of Spinoza when Bertie offers him a present.Chapter 1, London, as my Uncle Percy
3. Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Chapters 1–2, the bookshop, as old Worplesdon
4. Bertie restores himself at the Bollinger bar and, standing in the doorway, notices something odd across the way.Chapters 2–3, the Bollinger, as My Uncle Percy
5. Jeeves reveals that he has arranged for Bertie to occupy Lord Worplesdon's cottage Wee Nooke at Steeple Bumpleigh as cover for a secret merger meeting, and Bertie, fearing Aunt Agatha, gives in.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Uncle Percy
6. Over morning tea Jeeves cheers Bertie with news of a fancy dress ball, passes on Aunt Agatha's order to fetch a birthday brooch for Florence, and hears that Nobby is engaged to Boko.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat, as Uncle Percy
7. Once clear of London traffic on the Portsmouth Road, Bertie sets about quizzing Nobby on her engagement to Boko.Chapters 5–6, as Uncle Percy
8. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Chapters 6–7, the Bokeries, as Uncle Percy
9. Driving to Wee Nooke in gloom, Bertie is hailed by a hostile Stilton Cheesewright, who has inexplicably become a country policeman.Chapters 7–8, as Uncle Percy
10. Florence cycles up, says she has put flowers in Wee Nooke, and calls Stilton a perfect imbecile for becoming a constable instead of letting his uncle put him into Parliament, leaving Bertie appalled at how shaky their engagement looks.Chapter 8, Steeple Bumpleigh, as her father
11. After searching the garden in vain Bertie walks to Boko's gate and meets Nobby cycling up.Chapters 11–12, the Bokeries, as Uncle Percy
12. Boko pretends his lunch with Uncle Percy was a success, then announces his plan for Bertie to break the Hall's scullery window so he can foil the 'burglar', and Bertie, flattered by Nobby, reluctantly agrees.Chapter 12, the sitting-room, as Uncle Percy
13. Nobby whistles Bertie aside behind a tree, learns that the night's plan has flopped and that Boko has alienated Uncle Percy, and rushes off to tick Boko off.Chapter 15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Uncle Percy
14. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Chapters 15–19, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Uncle Percy
15. Back at Boko's, Bertie confesses he is engaged to Florence again, and agrees to tick off Uncle Percy in return for Boko's secret method of getting disengaged.Chapter 19, the sitting-room, as Uncle Percy
16. Bertie wakes to find the script of insults Boko has written for him to deliver to Uncle Percy, and is appalled by it.Chapter 20, Bertie's room at Boko's, as Uncle Percy
17. Avoiding Boko and Stilton swimming, Bertie finds Jeeves fishing, reproaches him for the Uncle Percy scheme, and sends him to find out from the Hall staff how Boko got out of his engagement to Florence.Chapter 20, the river, as Uncle Percy
18. Over breakfast Bertie warns Boko he may back out of telling off Uncle Percy, and Boko calls him a poltroon and threatens to withhold the Fittleworth secret.Chapter 20, the dining-room, as Uncle Percy
19. Jeeves reports that, according to the boot-boy Erbut, Boko ended his engagement to Florence by kicking Edwin, and just then Edwin stoops in the drive before them.Chapters 20–21, the drive, as his lordship
20. Bertie tells Nobby he is backing out of inflaming Uncle Percy, until she promises to show Florence his insulting letter about her if he goes through with it.Chapter 21, the drive, as Uncle Percy
21. Leaving the study, Bertie is met in the passage by Nobby.Chapters 22–23, the passage, as Uncle Percy
22. Jeeves admits he misled Uncle Percy, proposes the East Wibley fancy dress dance for the meeting with Clam in Bertie's Sindbad costume, wins Uncle Percy over with the whiskers, and arranges for Boko to drive him to London and buy costumes.Chapter 23, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Uncle Percy
23. Bathing in the river, Bertie is confronted by a seething Stilton, who tells him Florence has fixed their wedding for September and wishes he could break his neck or pinch him.Chapter 24, the river, as an uncle by marriage
24. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Chapters 24–25, the sitting-room, as Uncle Percy
25. Bertie refuses to be driven to the East Wibley ball by Boko, preferring his own two-seater so he can get out of Stilton's uniform quickly, and frets that Stilton already suspects him of pinching it.Chapter 26, as Uncle Percy
26. Bertie sends Boko off to Uncle Percy, drives home, throws Stilton's uniform into the river, and finds a hedgehog in his bed, which he lets loose in the garden instead of putting it in Boko's.Chapter 26, Bertie's room at Boko's
27. Setting out to bathe, Bertie meets a radiant Nobby, who tells him Uncle Percy has consented to her marrying Boko.Chapter 27, the garden gate, as Uncle Percy
28. Stilton arrives at breakfast to arrest Bertie for stealing his uniform, on Edwin's evidence and a waiter's, but goes off to check whether he needs a warrant, and Boko urges Bertie to flee abroad.Chapter 27, the dining-room, as Uncle Percy
29. Nobby, off to London to marry Boko, admits that Bertie's letter never reached Florence because Edwin destroyed it, and a baffled Jeeves is sent to the kitchen to eat anchovy paste.Chapter 29, the dining-room, as Uncle Percy

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2 scenes

1. Bertie, in the bath and dreading a dinner with Aunt Dahlia's Trotters, greets the returning Jeeves, who reads him Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds to back his play of Florence Craye's Spindrift, and they agree to refuse.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Lord Worplesdon’s
2. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Worplesdon

Jeeves in the Offing 2 scenes

1. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den, as my Uncle Percy
2. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as your Uncle Percy

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Madeline corners Bertie in the hall, furious that the vegetarian Gussie has been rude about Spode, and declares she will have nothing more to do with him if he ever eats meat.Chapter 12, the hall, as Uncle Percy

Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as Uncle Percy

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 2 scenes

1. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court, as an uncle
2. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke, as spouse