Robert G. Ingersoll

Also called Ingersoll, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll

Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the freethinker whose arguments Dobbs quotes and whose works he reads in his cottage.

Connections

dealings

• is quoted by, is read by Constable Dobbs 2

Talked about, but not there

1. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Ingersoll
2. Outside the inn Gussie, in his green beard, gulps brandy before going to steal Corky's dog from Dobbs's cottage, confident Dobbs is at the concert; then Jeeves returns to say Esmond will deputize and that Dobbs has gone home to his cottage.Chapters 23–24, the Goose and Cowslip, as Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
3. Corky drives off with the rescued Sam Goldwyn, Dobbs chases Gussie up a tree, and Jeeves lays the constable out with a cosh and leads Gussie away to remove his beard.Chapter 24, the road