the defaulting backer

Also called One of the backers

A member of the syndicate financing the Spindrift play who has failed to produce his promised thousand pounds.

Connections

dealings

• backs out of Spindrift^✦︎ 1
• backs out of the Spindrift play^✦︎ 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie, in the bath and dreading a dinner with Aunt Dahlia's Trotters, greets the returning Jeeves, who reads him Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds to back his play of Florence Craye's Spindrift, and they agree to refuse.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as one of the syndicate
2. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat, as One of the backers