The Wooster Papers

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Tuppy Glossop

Also called Tuppy, Mr Glossop, Glossop, young Tuppy Glossop, Hildebrand Glossop, young Tuppy, young Glossop, Angela’s betrothed

Sir Roderick's nephew and Bertie's old enemy from the swimming-bath trick, infatuated first with Cora Bellinger and then with a dog-girl, until he makes it up with Angela.

In each book 6 books
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Sir Roderick's nephew and Bertie's old enemy from the swimming-bath trick, infatuated first with Cora Bellinger and then with a dog-girl, until he makes it up with Angela.
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    Hildebrand Glossop, Bertie's old friend and Angela's fiancé until he called her shark a flatfish; out for Gussie's blood, reconciled at the end.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Who once came to Bertie's room at Brinkley wanting to destroy Gussie.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Sir Roderick's nephew, with whom Bertie once had a feud.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Bertie's friend, engaged to Angela but too hard up to marry until Runkle pays what he owes Tuppy's father.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    Tuppy, who once tricked Bertie into the Drones swimming-bath.

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Scenes they are in

Very Good, Jeeves 9 scenes
  1. Tuppy Glossop calls while Bertie is singing in his bath, announces he is practically engaged to Cora Bellinger, and asks Bertie to deny the Drones practical-joke story to her over lunch.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Mr Glossop
  2. After lunch with the massive Cora, Tuppy reveals he means to win her by singing 'Sonny Boy' at Beefy Bingham's East End entertainment, then bolts on hearing Aunt Dahlia is coming.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Tuppy
  3. Bertie, primed at the Goat and Grapes, scrapes through 'Sonny Boy'; Tuppy follows and is pelted off the stage with vegetables, but Cora has not yet arrived to see it.Chapter 4, the Oddfellows' Hall, as Mr Glossop
  4. A black-eyed Tuppy drops Cora and goes back to Angela, and Jeeves reveals he tricked Cora into singing 'Sonny Boy' too, so that she got the bird and struck Tuppy, thinking he had played a practical joke on her.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Tuppy
  5. Driving to Bleaching, Bertie and Jeeves come upon Tuppy courting the dog-girl among her dogs, and Tuppy plainly wants them gone.Chapter 11, Upper Bleaching, as Tuppy
  6. Tuppy says he is playing for Upper Bleaching to please Miss Dalgleish, and Jeeves reports the servants' view that the match is more a brawl than a game.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Bleaching Court, as Tuppy
  7. Bertie urges Tuppy to fake a sprained ankle, but Tuppy, declaring this is true love, is all the keener to shine before his lady.Chapter 11, Tuppy's room, as Tuppy
  8. Tuppy is flattened over and over by the red-haired man, Bertie finds he has left the telegram in his other coat, and Tuppy turns tiger, crocks his tormentor and scores the winning try.Chapter 11, the football-field, as Tuppy
  9. Tuppy, crushed that Miss Dalgleish skipped the match to chase a water-spaniel, reads the telegram, forgives Angela and dashes to London in Bertie's car, and Bertie learns Jeeves made the phone call and warned Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Bleaching Court, as Tuppy
Right Ho, Jeeves 9 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 Tuppy
  2. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court, as Tuppy
  3. Starving after skipping dinner, Tuppy tells Bertie Angela hasn't softened and vows to tear apart the man he thinks stole her at Cannes.Chapter 11, the smoking-room
  4. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  5. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tuppy
  6. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  7. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  8. 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, as Tuppy
  9. In the hall Tuppy, carrying bottles to the party, tells Bertie he and Angela have made it up, Anatole is staying, and Uncle Tom has paid for Aunt Dahlia's paper.Chapter 23, the hall, as Tuppy

Talked about, but not there

Very Good, Jeeves 13 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, as Tuppy
  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 Tuppy
  3. Dressing for dinner, Bertie crows that Bobbie has suggested puncturing Tuppy's hot-water bottle with a needle on a stick, and has Jeeves find out that Tuppy sleeps in the Moat Room.Chapter 3, the Clock Room, as Tuppy
  4. 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 Tuppy
  5. 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, as Tuppy
  6. Aunt Dahlia complains that Tuppy has dropped Angela for Cora Bellinger and tells Bertie to have Jeeves break up the affair.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Glossop
  7. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Mr Glossop
  8. Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  9. Telephoning from the Drones, Bertie hears the lunch was a triumph and the play sold, but Bobbie confesses she gave McIntosh to the Blumenfeld child.Chapter 5, the Drones Club, as Tuppy
  10. Bertie explains why he chose Sir Reginald Witherspoon's Bleaching Court for Christmas: Tuppy Glossop will be there, and he has vowed revenge for the swimming-bath trick at the Drones.Chapter 11, as Tuppy
  11. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat, as Mr Glossop
  12. Bertie reflects on the bitter feud between the two villages and the ghoulish relish for Thursday's game.Chapter 11, as Tuppy
  13. Bertie and Jeeves draft a fake telegram from Dahlia Travers saying Angela is seriously ill and calling for Tuppy, to arrive at two-thirty mid-match.Chapter 11, Bleaching Court, as Tuppy
Right Ho, Jeeves 22 scenes
  1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1, as young Tuppy Glossop
  2. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1
  3. A telegram from Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Angela and Tuppy have broken off their engagement, and he orders Jeeves to pack for Brinkley.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as young Tuppy Glossop
  4. Driving down to Brinkley, Bertie broods over the unexpected breach between Angela and Tuppy.Chapter 7, as Tuppy
  5. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court, as young Glossop
  6. Aunt Dahlia explains that Tuppy belittled Angela's shark, says she wants Jeeves on the case, and begs Bertie in vain not to try a plan of his own.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court, as Glossop
  7. Still smarting at Tuppy crediting Jeeves with his scheme, Bertie restores his spirits in the bath playing with a toy duck.Chapter 9, the bathroom, as Tuppy
  8. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  9. 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 Tuppy
  10. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court, as Mr Glossop
  11. 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, as Tuppy
  12. Bertie wakes, gives up on the Tuppy-Angela rift for now, and reviews his plan to lace Gussie's orange juice before the prize-giving.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  13. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall, as Tuppy
  14. Bertie finds Angela in the summerhouse and rebukes her for getting engaged to Gussie only to score off Tuppy, but she refuses to back down and tells him to go and boil his head.Chapter 19, the summer-house, as Tuppy
  15. 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, as Tuppy
  16. Helping Gussie downstairs, Bertie learns he fled Tuppy out of a window and got stuck on the roof, and advises him to barricade himself in his room.Chapter 20, the stairs, as Tuppy
  17. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room, as Tuppy
  18. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as Tuppy
  19. Standing nervously by the outhouse at 12.30, Bertie doubts Jeeves's scheme but rings the Brinkley Court fire bell.Chapter 22, the outhouse, as Tuppy
  20. At the gardener's shed Bertie berates Jeeves, finds the bicycle has no lamp, and hears Uncle Cyril's story of Nicholls and Jackson.Chapter 22, the gardener's shed, as Tuppy
  21. Bertie wobbles through the dark countryside, dodging a pig and mistaking an owl on a signpost for Aunt Agatha.Chapter 22, as Tuppy
  22. Jeeves explains that his fire-bell scheme united everyone in dislike of Bertie and then in amusement at his pointless ride, brings him an omelette, and confesses to having burnt his mess jacket, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 23, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Glossop
The Code of the Woosters 1 scene
  1. 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
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
Much Obliged, Jeeves 8 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. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as Tuppy
  3. 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
  4. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn, as Tuppy
  5. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tuppy
  6. 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, as Tuppy
  7. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  8. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as Tuppy
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1 scene
  1. Bertie stumbles into Cook's swimming-pool and enjoys the rinse, then rescues Orlo Porter, who has fallen in fleeing the dog after Cook refused to give him his money.Chapter 17, the swimming-pool