the Rev Ambrose Briscoe

Also called the Rev Briscoe, the Colonel’s brother, the Reverend Briscoe, Father, Briscoe

The village vicar, Colonel Briscoe's brother and Angelica's father, worried about his church organ.

Connections

dealings

• is brother or sister of Colonel Briscoe 4
• is father or mother of Angelica Briscoe 3
• meets, is told by Aunt Dahlia 2
• has as a member Billy Graham 1
• covets the Church Organ^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall
2. Aunt Dahlia ticks Bertie off for his dullness at lunch, then hears the cat story and says an ominous 'H'm' at the news that losing the cat would ruin Potato Chip's training.Chapter 5, the grounds of Eggesford Hall, as the Rev Briscoe
3. Walking round the village, Bertie looks into the shop's lending library, where Angelica Briscoe conspiratorially asks him 'Has he brought it yet?' before her father arrives to buy sweets.Chapter 9, the village shop, as her father

Talked about, but not there

1. 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 the Rev Briscoe
2. Bertie asks Graham to take the cat back; Graham refuses, citing Angelica and his bet on Potato Chip, until Bertie haggles him up to thirty-five pounds.Chapters 12–13, Wee Nooke, as Briscoe
3. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a panic: having tipped the vicar off about the cat, she has had Jimmy Briscoe threaten to scratch Simla unless it is returned, and Bertie assures her Billy Graham is taking it back.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke, as the vicar