Tubby Frobisher

Also called Tubby, Major Frobisher, Augustus Frobisher, Mr Frobisher, Augustus, Frobisher

Major Augustus Frobisher, Biggar's one-eyed friend from the Anglo-Malay Club, of rigid views on fortune-hunters, a vigorous Charleston dancer, lately married to a rich widow.

Connections

dealings

• is a friend of, is wronged by Captain Biggar 8
• is a member of the Anglo-Malay Club^⁂ 3
• marries Cora Rockmetteller 1
• dances the Charleston with the Greek consul's wife 1
• has sing at the wedding Mrs Spottsworth 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Captain Biggar bursts in chasing the bookie who welshed on his double, meets Mrs Spottsworth again and hides his love for her, deciding a penniless hunter cannot court a rich widow.Chapter 1, the Goose and Gherkin
2. Over the port Biggar tells how Honest Patch Perkins welshed on his three-thousand-pound double, reveals the bookie's car number is Bill's, and is talked round by Jeeves's theory of a false number plate before going off to make a private telephone call.Chapter 8, the dining room
3. In the moonlit garden Mrs Spottsworth all but invites Captain Biggar to propose, the code keeps him tongue-tied until Bill interrupts, and Biggar listens in disgust as Bill coos to her.Chapter 10, the garden
4. Biggar tells Jill that Bill is a fortune hunter courting Mrs Spottsworth, then Monica opens the dower chest to show off its costumes and finds Patch Perkins's check coat, and Biggar draws out the black patch and demands a word with Bill.Chapters 10–11, the living room
5. Pacing the lawn and kicking a frog, Captain Biggar broods that only money keeps him from proposing to Mrs Spottsworth, and is struck by an inspiration about her pendant.Chapter 12, the lawn
6. Biggar catches Bill and Jeeves from behind and proposes that Bill 'borrow' Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pawn for a bet on Ballymore, and after telling how he once bought it from a beachcomber in Shanghai and gave it to her, wins Bill's agreement.Chapters 12–13, the living room
7. Jill, gloomy and suspicious, learns Bill is in the garden with Mrs Spottsworth; Captain Biggar praises the spider sequence, and Bill returns to report that the pendant came off but fell down the front of Mrs Spottsworth's dress.Chapters 13–14, the living room
8. Mrs Spottsworth finds the repentant Biggar on the rustic seat with the pendant, demolishes his code by revealing that Tubby Frobisher has married a rich widow, and gets engaged to him.Chapter 22, the rustic seat