Seppings

Also called Aunt Dahlia’s butler, Mr Seppings, Pop Seppings, The butler

Aunt Dahlia's butler at Brinkley Court, who goes to the ball at Kingham with the back-door key.

In each book 6 books

• In Right Ho, Jeeves
  Aunt Dahlia's butler at Brinkley Court, who goes to the ball at Kingham with the back-door key.
• In The Code of the Woosters
  Aunt Dahlia's present butler.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Aunt Dahlia's butler at Brinkley Court, who halts Stilton's pursuit of Bertie and carries in the pearl necklace found in Jeeves's room.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  Aunt Dahlia's butler, gone to Bognor Regis on holiday.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Aunt Dahlia's butler, whose illness led her to borrow Jeeves.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Aunt Dahlia's butler, laid up after Anatole's lunch, later sent for a constable and nearly hit by a tomato at the debate.

Connections

dealings

• works for, is employed by Aunt Dahlia 18
• is liked by, is a friend of Bertie Wooster 6
• is suspected by, resents Mrs. Trotter 3
• is deputized for by, tells Jeeves 2
• delivers, finds Mrs. Trotter's necklace^✦︎ 2
• is upset by Tuppy Glossop 2
• interrupts, is ordered by Uncle Tom 2
• gives the back-door key^✦︎ 1

Everyone and everything else (8)

• is employed by Brinkley Court 1
• looks coldly at Gussie Fink-Nottle 1
• attends Kingham Manor 1
• is sent on an errand by L. P. Runkle 1
• is deputized for by the parlourmaid 1
• opens the skylight^✦︎ 1
• is loathed by Stilton Cheesewright 1
• attends the Stretchley-Budds^⁂ 1

Scenes they are in

Right Ho, Jeeves 4 scenes

1. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden, as the butler
2. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room
3. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom
4. At the Kingham Manor servants' ball Bertie prods Seppings, learns the back-door key was left with Jeeves all along, and sets off home.Chapter 22, Kingham Manor

The Code of the Woosters 1 scene

1. Aunt Dahlia refuses Bertie lunch and sends him to a Brompton Road antique shop to sneer at the cow-creamer Uncle Tom means to buy, so the price comes down.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 3 scenes

1. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall
2. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den
3. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room, as that nice butler

Much Obliged, Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
2. 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
3. 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
4. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
5. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room

Talked about, but not there

Right Ho, Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Bertie leaves his aunt with an inscrutable smile and in the garden runs into a gloomy Tuppy throwing stones at a flowerpot.Chapters 7–8, the garden at Brinkley, as the butler
2. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room, as my butler
3. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
4. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as the butler
5. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley

The Code of the Woosters 1 scene

1. Aunt Dahlia reveals Sir Watkyn has offered Uncle Tom the cow-creamer in exchange for Anatole, smashes the Infant Samuel, accepts that Spode's threat stops Bertie, and suggests finding a shady secret of Spode's.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1 scene

1. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den

Jeeves in the Offing 1 scene

1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Over a cheerful breakfast Bertie welcomes Jeeves back from Brinkley and is aghast to hear that Sir Watkyn Bassett, Madeline, Stiffy, Bartholomew and Gussie were among Aunt Dahlia's guests.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Her butler

Much Obliged, Jeeves 5 scenes

1. 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
2. Bertie tries to tell Jeeves about Spode prowling like the troops of Midian, but the gong sounds and Jeeves insists on redoing his tie.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Brinkley
3. 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, as Mr Seppings
4. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room
5. 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