Mrs McCorkadale

Also called the McCorkadale, Ma McCorkadale, McCorkadale, Mr Winship’s opponent, A barrister, the McCorkadale gargoyle, the relict of the late McCorkadale, the widow of the late McCorkadale

The grim barrister of Number One River Row, Ginger's Liberal opponent at Market Snodsbury, who routs Bertie and refuses to buy the club book.

Connections

dealings

• dislikes, is dreaded by Bertie Wooster 10
• has bets riding on him from, despises Brinkley 10
• stands against Ginger Winship 10
• calls on, is praised by Aunt Dahlia 3
• is married to Mr McCorkadale 2
• stands as candidate for the Market Snodsbury by-election^✦︎ 1
• employs Mrs McCorkadale's maid 1
• solves the Observer crossword^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as your boss
2. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court

Talked about, but not there

1. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room, as Mr Winship’s opponent
2. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, as his opponent
3. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as McCorkadale
4. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court, as the McCorkadale
5. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library
6. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Ma McCorkadale
7. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window, as the widow of the late McCorkadale
8. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house, as the McCorkadale
9. Bertie finds Jeeves reading Spinoza by the back door, tells him Ginger must somehow lose the election despite Spode's oratory, and warns him to keep out of Ginger's way.Chapter 14, the back door
10. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as his opponent
11. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive, as Ma McCorkadale
12. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room