Sir Watkyn Bassett

Also called Sir Watkyn, Pop Bassett, Bassett, Uncle Watkyn, old Bassett, Daddy, Pop, Uncle Watky

Owner of the silver cow-creamer, recalled from an earlier scrape.

In each book 7 books

• In Other Stories
  Owner of the silver cow-creamer, recalled from an earlier scrape.
• In The Code of the Woosters
  Retired magistrate who once fined Bertie, owner of Totleigh Towers and the cow-creamer, Madeline's father and Stiffy's uncle.
• In Joy in the Morning
  Madeline's father, owner of the cow-creamer.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Owner of Totleigh Towers and the cow-creamer, recalled from earlier adventures and asked after by Aunt Dahlia.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Pop Bassett, ex-magistrate, collector and master of Totleigh Towers, Madeline's father and Stiffy's uncle, who loathes Bertie and drops the charge against him in return for Jeeves's services.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Madeline's father, of Totleigh Towers, a collector of old silver whom Bertie loathes.
• In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  Sir Watkyn Bassett of Totleigh Towers, owner of the statuette.

Connections

dealings

• suspects, loathes Bertie Wooster 102
• is uncle of, angers Stiffy Byng 39
• is father of, is parent of Madeline Bassett 29
• is disliked by, is glad to be rid of as son-in-law Gussie Fink-Nottle 19
• owns, is fond of the cow-creamer^✦︎ 17
• is friend of, is admired by Roderick Spode 15
• dislikes, is furious with Stinker Pinker 15
• owns the black amber statuette^✦︎ 13

Everyone and everything else (36)

• is a rival collector of, is friend of Uncle Tom 13
• is disliked by, is loathed by Aunt Dahlia 10
• admires Jeeves 10
• trusts Constable Oates 8
• employs Butterfield 6
• owns Totleigh Towers 6
• covets Anatole 5
• swindles, buys from Major Plank 5
• owns Sir Watkyn's umbrella^✦︎ 5
• is treed by, orders off Bartholomew^♞︎ 4
• is pelted by, hunts the egg-thrower 3
• is insulted by, takes Gussie's notebook^✦︎ 3
• insists on wearing, is upset over Sir Watkyn's dressing gown^✦︎ 3
• owns the vicarage^✦︎ 3
• owns the Bassett collection^✦︎ 2
• mocks, attacks Gussie's newts^♞︎ 2
• is hit by the hard-boiled egg^✦︎ 2
• is in the library 2
• is engaged to Mrs Wintergreen 2
• threatens, searches for Oates's helmet^✦︎ 2
• searches for Bertie's room at Totleigh 1
• is pelted by the boot-thrower 1
• sits as magistrate at Bosher Street Police Court 1
• stays at Brinkley Court 1
• owns the china vase^✦︎ 1
• owns the collection-room 1
• loses the collection-room key^✦︎ 1
• employs Emerald Stoker 1
• treasures the grandfather clock^✦︎ 1
• handles the hunting crop^✦︎ 1
• buys from Lord somebody 1
• employs Sir Watkyn's cook 1
• is child of Sir Watkyn's father 1
• inherits from Sir Watkyn's relative 1
• owns Sir Watkyn's vase^✦︎ 1
• steals Uncle Tom's collection^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

The Code of the Woosters 9 scenes

1. At the antique shop Sir Watkyn takes Bertie for a reformed bag-snatcher, catches him with his umbrella, and when Bertie trips over the cat and charges out with the cow-creamer, he and Roderick yell for the police and Bertie bolts.Chapter 1, the antique shop, as old Pop Bassett
2. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room, as Sir Watkyn
3. Bertie overhears Gussie tell Spode not to talk rot, and at tea finds Gussie lordly and patronising, scolding him for forgetting a book.Chapter 3, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Sir Watkyn
4. At a superb dinner Bertie can barely eat for watching Gussie and Madeline sit in frozen silence, their engagement plainly off.Chapter 6, the Totleigh dining-room
5. Left with Sir Watkyn and Spode over the port, Bertie retreats to his room, where Spode bursts in looking for Gussie and leaves a message that he means to break his neck.Chapter 6, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as my host
6. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library
7. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Bassett
8. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Bassett
9. Jeeves admits he got Spode to take the blame, Bertie threatens Sir Watkyn with a lawsuit until he blesses both engagements, and Bertie buys the secret of Eulalie by agreeing to the world cruise.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 6 scenes

1. Madeline, showing Bertie to his room, tells her horrified father that Bertie is staying at least a week, and Sir Watkyn totters off for a stiff drink.Chapter 6, the upstairs corridor, as Daddy
2. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
3. Creeping through the dark hall, Bertie collides with Gussie, knocks over Sir Watkyn's precious grandfather clock, is caught by Sir Watkyn in his purple dressing-gown, and the two are driven on to a chest by Bartholomew until Stiffy appears.Chapters 8–9, the hall
4. Over cocktails with Pop Bassett, Bertie hears Stiffy announce there will be no dinner because the cook has eloped with Gussie Fink-Nottle.Chapters 15–17, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Pop Bassett
5. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Pop Bassett
6. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers, as Pop Bassett

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 1 scene

1. Driving down to Hampshire, Bertie tells Jeeves of his foreboding about Aunt Dahlia's 'little something'.Chapter 2

The Code of the Woosters 31 scenes

1. Hung over after Gussie's send-off dinner, Bertie takes Jeeves's bracer, refuses his round-the-world cruise folders, and hears that Aunt Dahlia has telephoned.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. 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, as old Pop Bassett
3. Bertie denies loving Madeline, and Aunt Dahlia, who will skip the wedding, reveals that Sir Watkyn tried to steal Anatole while staying at Brinkley.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
4. Restored after hours at the Turkish bath, Bertie gets home to find a pile of telegrams waiting.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Old Bassett
5. Bertie wires Gussie that Pop Bassett would never let him in and demands to know what the rift is about.Chapter 2, the post office, as Pop Bassett
6. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
7. Driving down to Totleigh, Bertie rails against aunts and agonises with Jeeves over whether to pinch the cow-creamer.Chapter 2, as old Bassett
8. Arriving at Totleigh Towers, Bertie learns from the butler that Sir Watkyn is out in the grounds with Roderick Spode.Chapter 2, Totleigh Towers
9. Bertie telephones a telegram to Aunt Dahlia saying that under Sir Watkyn's suspicious eye the cow-creamer job is impossible.Chapter 3, the library, as old Bassett
10. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall, as old Bassett
11. Gussie tells Bertie that Aunt Dahlia arrives tonight, explains how Jeeves's advice to despise his audience cured his shyness, and reveals he has written his scorn of Spode and Sir Watkyn in a notebook he has now lost.Chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Sir Watkyn
12. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as old Bassett
13. Stiffy asks Bertie to steal the cow-creamer so that Stinker can "recover" it and win a vicarage, and when he refuses she says she will hand Gussie's notebook to Uncle Watkyn unless he does it.Chapter 4, the terrace, as Uncle Watkyn
14. Spode warns Bertie that he is being watched and will be beaten to a jelly if the cow-creamer disappears, and Jeeves brings word that Aunt Dahlia has arrived and wants Bertie in the Blue Room.Chapter 4, the terrace
15. Dressing for dinner, Bertie has Jeeves list his three-way predicament, finds Jeeves has no solution, and cheers himself with a white tie before Gussie walks in.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
16. Bertie breaks it to Gussie that Stiffy will give his notebook to Sir Watkyn, refuses both to steal the cow-creamer and to search Stiffy's stockings, and Gussie breaks a shepherdess and storms off as Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Bassett
17. 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
18. Jeeves reveals the Junior Ganymede's club book, offers to telephone its Secretary for dirt on Spode, and on his way out mentions that Gussie's engagement to Madeline is off, as the dinner gong sounds.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
19. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
20. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Uncle Watkyn
21. Bertie threatens to tell Stinker of the blackmail, Stiffy counters with Sir Watkyn, Jeeves proposes Bertie pretend to be engaged to Stiffy, and Bertie is forced off to the library to do it.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
22. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers
23. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Daddy
24. Bertie finds Spode battering Gussie's door, cows him, and takes from him the notebook he found in the cow-creamer, then hands it to Gussie to show Madeline.Chapter 10, the passage, as Pop Bassetts
25. 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, as Pop Bassett
26. Bertie sees Spode off from menacing Gussie, mocks his asparagus-eating, and Jeeves arrives with the brandy and news that Oates was assaulted and the cow-creamer stolen, sending Spode galloping off.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn
27. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Bassett
28. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
29. Stiffy admits hiding the helmet in Bertie's suitcase and, by appealing to the Code of the Woosters, gets him to agree to take the rap for Harold.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
30. Jeeves says 'Eureka' and recommends dropping the helmet out of the window as footsteps approach.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn
31. 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, as Pop Bassett

Joy in the Morning 1 scene

1. Florence finds Bertie apparently buying her novel Spindrift, autographs it, is thrilled to hear he reads Spinoza, and gives him a melting look that sends him fleeing.Chapter 2, the bookshop, as old Bassett

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 3 scenes

1. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
2. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
3. 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

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 25 scenes

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
2. Aunt Dahlia phones to explain she invited Bassett to take Uncle Tom's mind off taxes, mentions the black amber statuette and invites herself to lunch, and Bertie defies Jeeves by wearing his new Alpine hat to the Ritz.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Sir Watkyn
3. Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.Chapter 2, the Ritz
4. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room
5. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat, as her father
6. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a fury over the cancelled lunch, hears Bertie is off to Totleigh, and warns him that Sir Watkyn is trying to steal Jeeves.Chapter 5, London
7. Bertie drives down to Totleigh Towers fretting about Jeeves being poached, and reflects on the house and its owner's ill-gotten wealth.Chapter 5, Totleigh Towers, as Bassett
8. At tea Madeline tells Bertie she still loves Gussie and weeps over his hopeless love for her, and Spode walks in to find Bertie patting her head.Chapters 5–6, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Sir Watkyn
9. Gussie storms in denouncing vegetables and reveals that the cook is Emerald Stoker, who lost her allowance on a horse and took the job rather than confess to her father.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn
10. Having eaten next to nothing at a strained dinner, Bertie wakes ravenous in his room and resolves to make for the steak and kidney pie in the kitchen.Chapter 8, Totleigh Towers, as Pop Bassett
11. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh
12. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house
13. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house, as Sir Watkyn
14. Bertie drives into the Totleigh stable yard and Spode orders him out of the car so he can search it.Chapters 11–12, the stable yard, as Uncle Watkyn
15. Madeline corners Bertie in the hall, furious that the vegetarian Gussie has been rude about Spode, and declares she will have nothing more to do with him if he ever eats meat.Chapter 12, the hall, as Daddy
16. Bertie tells Jeeves that Gussie and Madeline have fallen out over sunsets and the Blessed Damozel, and decides to dodge the school treat by lunching with Uncle Tom at Brinkley.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn
17. Over Anatole's lunch Bertie cheers Uncle Tom with the news that Pop Bassett's statuette was no bargain, and drives back hoping Gussie can eat meat in London unseen.Chapter 13, Brinkley Court, as Pop Bassett
18. Jeeves reports that a boy egged Sir Watkyn and Stiffy's dog bit Gussie at the school treat; Gussie goes off to walk with Emerald Stoker, Stinker's vicarage is in doubt, and Spode bursts in.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Bassett
19. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley, as Pop Bassett
20. Bertie broods in his room and decides to break his promise to Stiffy and seek a cocktail from Sir Watkyn.Chapter 15, Bertie's room at Totleigh
21. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers, as Pop Bassett
22. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers, as Sir Watkyn
23. Constable Oates, still sore about the cold he caught guarding Bertie's window, marches him to the village lock-up and puts him in its only cell.Chapter 24, the police station, as Pop Bassett
24. Stiffy visits Bertie's cell and offers to confess to taking the statuette, Bertie refuses to let her, and Oates returns glumly to say Sir Watkyn has dropped the charge.Chapter 24, the police station, as Uncle Watkyn
25. Freed, Bertie refuses Stiffy's plan to get even with Oates, then learns from Jeeves that he won the release by agreeing to work for Sir Watkyn for a while, and gives up his Alpine hat to Jeeves, who will pass it on to the courting Butterfield.Chapter 24, Totleigh-in-the-Wold, as Uncle Watkyn

Much Obliged, Jeeves 6 scenes

1. Back in London after Totleigh Towers, Bertie breakfasts in a state of euphoria and Jeeves warns, with Shakespeare, that clouds may follow.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Bertie explains to new readers how Gussie's elopement with the cook nearly left him marrying Madeline Bassett until Spode, now Lord Sidcup, claimed her.Chapter 1
3. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as old Bassett
4. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
5. 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 your father
6. 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

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1 scene

1. Pop Cook, told by the recovered Major Plank that Bertie is the crook Alpine Joe, finds Vanessa's inscribed book and goes for Bertie with his hunting crop, until he trips over the grandfather clock and Bertie crowns him with a painting and wraps him in the tablecloth before leaving for the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 15, the sitting-room