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Sir Roderick Glossop

Also called Sir Roderick, Glossop, Pop Glossop, Swordfish, old Glossop, Roddy, Roderick, Roddy Glossop

The loony doctor, now Bertie's friend, who cannot marry Lady Chuffnell while his daughter Honoria is single and ends up as Santa Claus.

In each book 10 books
  • In Other Stories
    The loony doctor, now Bertie's friend, who cannot marry Lady Chuffnell while his daughter Honoria is single and ends up as Santa Claus.
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    The eminent nerve specialist, Honoria's father, who comes to lunch to vet Bertie and later backs up the story that he is mad.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    The great nerve specialist, Honoria's father, who nearly buys Biffy's house and later exposes Bertie at the Pringles' and declares him insane.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    The loony-doctor, Tuppy's uncle, whose hot-water bottle Bertie punctures by mistake at Skeldings.
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    The nerve specialist and Bertie's old enemy, who wrecks his engagement to Pauline, gets engaged to Lady Chuffnell, blacks up to amuse Seabury, and ends the night locked in the potting-shed, at peace with Bertie.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    The nerve specialist once locked in a potting-shed at Chuffnell Hall.
  • In The Mating Season
    The loony doctor, Bertie's old buddy, whom Esmond's antics bring to mind.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    The eminent loony doctor who once made Bertie ill at ease, until Bertie saw his softer side.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    The eminent loony-doctor, now on cordial terms with Bertie, posing as Swordfish the butler at Brinkley to observe Wilbert; when the cow-creamer turns up in his room he escapes arrest by revealing who he is.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The nerve specialist, Tuppy's uncle, once Bertie's dread and now his pal.

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Scenes they are in

The Inimitable Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Bertie rushes back to his flat, checks Jeeves's austere menu for Sir Roderick, and braces himself as the bell rings.Chapters 7–8, the sitting-room, as Sir Roderick
Carry On, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Sir Roderick orders a Wembley expedition, while Biffy loses his nerve and fails to squirt him.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat, as Sir Roderick
  2. Bertie explains Biffy’s lost romance to Jeeves, who had not known why Biffy lost touch with Mabel.Chapter 6, as Sir Roderick
  3. Sir Roderick leads a wearisome exhibition tour until Bertie and Biffy agree to escape to the bar.Chapter 6, Wembley, as Sir Roderick
  4. Biffy smashes the glass to reach Mabel and is arrested, leading Sir Roderick to end his engagement to Honoria.Chapter 6, the Palace of Beauty, as Sir Roderick
  5. Sir Roderick exposes Bertie’s identity and calls him insane, forcing him to reveal Sippy’s imprisonment.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room, as Roderick
Very Good, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Bertie creeps into the Moat Room and punctures the hot-water bottle, only to find it is Sir Roderick's, who has swapped rooms with Tuppy; caught by his dressing-gown in the door, he is hauled back, called insane, and left in the soaked room while Sir Roderick takes his bed.Chapter 3, the Moat Room, as the contents of the bed
Thank You, Jeeves 6 scenes
  1. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York
  2. Sir Roderick Glossop calls to tell Bertie he ought to be certified and to demand he stop tormenting Mrs Tinkler-Moulke with his banjolele; Bertie refuses and has Jeeves show him out.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as the foul strait-waistcoat specialist
  3. A beaming Chuffy tells Bertie that Sir Roderick Glossop is to marry Aunt Myrtle and has found a millionaire, J. Washburn Stoker, to buy the Hall, just as the Stokers and Glossop arrive for lunch.Chapters 3–4, Chuffnell Hall
  4. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall
  5. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House
  6. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House
Jeeves in the Offing 9 scenes
  1. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn, as butler
  2. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn, as Pop Glossop
  3. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as Pop Glossop
  4. Glossop, answering the bell as butler, says he is still undecided about Wilbert's sanity, then brings a letter from Jeeves revealing Wilbert is a kleptomaniac, and they hurry to check the silver.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  5. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room, as Pop Glossop
  6. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn, as Pop Glossop
  7. In the pantry Bertie tells Glossop of being caught in Wilbert's room, and Glossop, his blood up, resolves to search the room for the cow-creamer himself; bonding over stolen school biscuits, they become Bertie and Roddy.Chapter 10, the butler's pantry, as Swordfish
  8. 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 Roddy
  9. Over port in his pantry, Glossop hears of Kipper's plight and suggests pushing Upjohn into the lake so Kipper can rescue him.Chapter 14, the butler's pantry, as Swordfish

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Other Stories 7 scenes
  1. Back from Glossop's clinic, Bertie learns from Jeeves, via the Junior Ganymede club book, that Lady Chuffnell won't marry Sir Roderick while Honoria is unmarried, and that Aunt Dahlia is coming to dinner.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  2. Over dinner Aunt Dahlia reveals that Blair Eggleston is too timid to propose to Honoria, then asks Bertie to play Santa Claus at her children's party, and he flatly refuses.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  3. Jeeves backs Bertie's refusal, and Bertie sends him for roses to soothe Aunt Dahlia, secretly needing her help with a plan for Glossop.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Sir R. Glossop
  4. Aunt Dahlia spurns Bertie's roses but agrees to his scheme: he will rush Honoria so that a jealous Eggleston proposes, while she eggs Eggleston on.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as Roddy
  5. Bertie gives Honoria the rush of a lifetime with lunches, dinners and night clubs.Chapter 3, as Pop Glossop
  6. Waterbury phones to say Trixie expects a wedding, demands two thousand pounds in heart balm on threat of breach of promise and Porky Jupp, and Aunt Dahlia summons Jeeves to confer.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as Roddy
  7. With Bertie behind the piano, Jeeves poses as a broker's man and Aunt Dahlia threatens to ship Bertie penniless to Canada, routing Waterbury; Jeeves then gets Glossop cast as Santa Claus and Bertie agrees to Florida.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
The Inimitable Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Over lunch Aunt Agatha announces that Bertie is to marry Honoria Glossop and must go down to Ditteredge Hall tomorrow.Chapter 5
  2. At lunch Honoria announces Bertie must get rid of Jeeves when they marry, and Aunt Agatha then warns him that Sir Roderick Glossop, doubting his sanity, is coming to lunch at his flat next day.Chapter 7, Aunt Agatha's house, as Sir Roderick
  3. The cats bolt from the bedroom and Lord Rainsby explains the thefts were for the Seekers club, then borrows a tenner to bail out the arrested twins.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as the man who was lunching here
  4. Jeeves returns, Aunt Agatha telephones in a state, Bertie realises the engagement is off and Jeeves engineered it, and Jeeves books passage to New York.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Sir Roderick
  5. Lord Bittlesham opens Bingo's door and flees in fright, and Bingo explains that Jeeves fixed everything by telling the old man Bertie is a lunatic who believes he is Rosie M. Banks, with Sir Roderick Glossop backing it up.Chapter 18, Bingo's flat
Carry On, Jeeves 12 scenes
  1. Biffy recounts losing his fiancée Mabel through forgetfulness and says he is negotiating to sell his house to Sir Roderick.Chapter 6, the café, as Sir Roderick
  2. Bertie reads of Biffy’s engagement to Honoria and is baffled by Jeeves’s indifference.Chapter 6, Bertie's Paris room, as Sir Roderick
  3. Biffy asks how to escape Honoria, and Bertie offers to attend Sir Roderick’s lunch and consult Jeeves.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as Sir Roderick
  4. Bertie demonstrates a squirting bouquet and tells Biffy to use it on Sir Roderick to break the engagement.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat, as Sir Roderick
  5. Green Swizzles revive Bertie and Biffy, who cannot remember which attraction Jeeves advised him to visit.Chapter 6, the Planters' Bar, as Sir Roderick
  6. After enjoying the rides, Biffy spots the Palace of Beauty and remembers Jeeves’s recommendation.Chapter 6, the Amusement Park, as Sir Roderick
  7. After failing to bail Biffy out, Bertie learns that Jeeves arranged the reunion because Mabel is his niece.Chapter 6, as Sir Roderick
  8. Bertie meets the dismal Pringles, inherits Sippy’s reputation for tormenting cats and discovers Heloise’s resemblance to Honoria.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room
  9. Jeeves explains Heloise’s kinship to Honoria and advises Bertie to avoid her.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house
  10. Heloise presses Bertie to abandon Jeeves and Bertie Wooster until Aunt Jane’s demand for the cat saves him.Chapter 7, the summer-house, as Uncle Roderick
  11. Jeeves advises Bertie to tell Aunt Vera himself and arranges their departure.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at the Pringles'
  12. Aunt Vera surprises Bertie by laughing at the news of Sippy’s imprisonment and declaring herself proud of him.Chapter 7, the Paddock
Very Good, Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Over breakfast Bertie tells a disappointed Jeeves that Monte Carlo is off in favour of Christmas at Skeldings, and Aunt Agatha telephones to warn him that Sir Roderick Glossop will be there.Chapter 3
  2. At Skeldings Bertie explains he came to avenge himself on Tuppy and because he loves Bobbie Wickham, and Jeeves says red-haired, frivolous Miss Wickham is no wife for him.Chapter 3, the Clock Room, as Sir Roderick
  3. After a sleepless night Bertie learns that Jeeves kept quiet to save him from Honoria, that Bobbie also sent Tuppy to puncture Bertie's bottle (with Sir Roderick on it), and that the Monte Carlo booking was never cancelled.Chapter 3, the Moat Room
Thank You, Jeeves 15 scenes
  1. Strumming his banjolele, Bertie tells Jeeves he saw the Stokers dining with Sir Roderick Glossop and Lord Chuffnell's aunt at the Savoy Grill, and is outraged to hear that Glossop has called to see him.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Given an ultimatum by the building manager to stop playing or leave, Bertie decides to move to a country cottage, and Jeeves gives notice rather than live with the banjolele, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Glossop
  3. Bertie meets Chuffy in Piccadilly, learns he is lunching with Sir Roderick Glossop, rents a cottage at Chuffnell Regis from him, and tells him he has parted with Jeeves, whereupon Chuffy decides to call at the flat.Chapter 2, Piccadilly, as Glossop
  4. On a bench in the shrubbery Pauline tells Bertie she is crazy about Chuffy and asks him to hint that Chuffy should speak, until Jeeves appears.Chapters 4–6, the rustic bench, as old Glossop
  5. Chuffy, rattled to learn from Glossop that Bertie was once engaged to Pauline, is reassured and reveals he is now engaged to her and that Stoker has agreed to buy the Hall.Chapter 6, the rustic bench
  6. Jeeves tells how a fight between Dwight and Seabury became a general brawl, Stoker withdrew from buying the Hall, Chuffy insulted him, Pauline was confined to the yacht, and Chuffy overheard about the kiss.Chapter 6, Jeeves's quarters, as Sir Roderick
  7. Back at the cottage at midnight, Bertie finds Pauline Stoker sitting up in his bed in his heliotrope pyjamas.Chapters 6–8, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage, as Sir Roderick
  8. Bertie tells Jeeves of the night's disasters and Chuffy's row with Pauline, and Jeeves brings an invitation to dinner from Stoker, whom he has talked out of thinking Bertie mad; they agree Bertie will tell Pauline that Chuffy is pining, and remain at odds over the banjolele.Chapter 11, the cottage garden
  9. Bertie dines on the yacht with Stoker and Dwight, learns Pauline is confined with a 'headache', and over cigars Stoker remarks that guests on a yacht can't easily get away and offers to show him round.Chapter 11, Stoker's yacht
  10. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis
  11. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall, as Sir Roderick
  12. Bertie spends a cold, sleepless night in the summer-house, too afraid of Voules to go to the garage, and wakes at dawn ravenous.Chapter 17, the summer-house, as Glossop
  13. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study, as Glossop
  14. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall
  15. Over breakfast after his acquittal Jeeves reveals that he faked the cable about the contested will, and, since he will not serve a married man, asks to come back to Bertie, who gratefully accepts.Chapter 22, the small morning-room
The Code of the Woosters 2 scenes
  1. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  2. Locked in, Bertie talks to Jeeves through the door, learns that Sir Watkyn has forbidden Stiffy to marry Stinker, and urges Jeeves to cosh Oates with a shovel.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
The Mating Season 1 scene
  1. Back in his room, Bertie hears from Gussie that his love for Corky died up the tree, tells him Madeline has been squared, and sees him dash off to Wimbledon just before Esmond Haddock comes in.Chapters 24–25, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1 scene
  1. Fortified by one of Jeeves's specials, Bertie refuses to shave off the moustache Jeeves disapproves of, just as Stilton Cheesewright arrives.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room
Jeeves in the Offing 14 scenes
  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
  2. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as Pop Glossop
  3. Bertie enters Wilbert's room, finds a housemaid there with Augustus the cat hunting a mouse, and gets rid of her by claiming Augustus has traumatic symplegia.Chapters 7–8, the Blue Room
  4. Bertie tells Bobbie he is through, but she talks him into a second search, promising to stand guard and sing if Mrs. Cream approaches so he can escape by the balcony and water pipe.Chapter 8, the lawn, as Sir Roderick
  5. With Bobbie supposedly on watch, Bertie searches again, finds nothing on the armoire, and is caught under the dressing-table by Mrs. Cream, who decides he has a mouse-fixation and urges him to see Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapter 8, the Blue Room
  6. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Roddy Glossop
  7. Bertie gives Kipper and Bobbie the lake plan, which they embrace, and Kipper finds it peculiar that a butler thought of it.Chapter 14, the lawn, as Swordfish
  8. Bertie outlines Operation Upjohn to Jeeves, who calls it ill-advised and quotes Burns on best laid plans, and Bertie puts his coolness down to jealousy of Glossop.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  9. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake, as Pop Glossop
  10. 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 Swordfish
  11. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court, as your butler
  12. Aunt Dahlia rings for the butler, gets Jeeves instead, has him pack Upjohn's things and orders Bertie to drive Upjohn to Market Snodsbury.Chapter 18, the study, as Sir Roderick
  13. Jeeves has pinched Upjohn's speech while packing, and after Bertie fumbles the telephone call Bobbie seizes the receiver and forces Upjohn to drop his libel suit against Kipper in writing.Chapters 19–20, Aunt Dahlia's den, as that butler
  14. Back from a fruitless hunt for Glossop, Bertie learns that Jeeves saved the day by having Glossop say he was there to observe the potty Bertie, who stole the cow-creamer, and is softened only when Jeeves reminds him it was all for Uncle Tom.Chapter 21, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Glossop
Much Obliged, Jeeves 2 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. 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 Sir Roderick