It was at Oxford that he first began celebrating the night of the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. īertie is a member of the Drones Club, and most of his friends and fellow Drones members depicted in the stories attended one or both of these institutions with him. Īfter Malvern House, Bertie was further educated at the non-fictional Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford. When Bertie was fourteen, he won the Choir Boys' Handicap bicycle race at a local school treat, having received half a lap start. īertie once won a prize at private school for the best collection of wildflowers made during the summer holidays. Despite his pride over his accomplishment, Bertie does not remember precisely what the prize was, simply stating that it was "a handsomely bound copy of a devotional work whose name has escaped me". Bertie stoutly denies this charge, however, and on the same occasion, Gussie makes other completely groundless accusations against other characters. Bertie speaks with pride of this achievement on several occasions, but in Right Ho, Jeeves, his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, while intoxicated, publicly accuses Bertie of having won the award by cheating. One detail of Bertie's Malvern House life that comes into several stories is his winning of the prize for scripture knowledge. (Wodehouse himself attended a school by that name, in Kearsney, Kent, but the Malvern House that appears in the stories is in the fictional town of Bramley-on-Sea.) At Malvern House, Bertie's friends called him "Daredevil Bertie", though Upjohn and others called him "Bungling Wooster". Aubrey Upjohn, whom he meets again in Jeeves in the Offing.
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It is established throughout the series that Bertie is an orphan who inherited a large fortune at some point, although the exact details and timing of his parents' deaths are never made clear.īertie Wooster's early education took place at the semi-fictional Malvern House Preparatory School, headed by Rev.
When Bertie was eight years old, he took dancing lessons (alongside Corky Potter-Pirbright, sister of Bertie's friend Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright). Bertie makes no other mention of his mother, though he makes a remark about motherhood after being astounded by a friend telling a blatant lie: "And this, mark you, a man who had had a good upbringing and had, no doubt, spent years at his mother's knee being taught to tell the truth." Like Jeeves, Bertie says that his mother thought him intelligent. Bertie also mentions reciting other poems as a child, including "Ben Battle" and works by Walter Scott. When he was around seven years of age, Bertie was sometimes compelled to recite " The Charge of the Light Brigade" for guests by his mother she proclaimed that he recited nicely, but Bertie disagrees, and says that he and others found the experience unpleasant. Bertie refers to his father as the "guv'nor". The only other piece of information given about Bertie's father, aside from the fact that he had numerous relatives, is that he was a great friend of Lord Wickhammersley of Twing Hall. Bertie's middle name, "Wilberforce", is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie's christening and insisted on his son carrying that name. The Wodehouse character Reggie Pepper was an early prototype of Bertie Wooster.įictional biography Early life īertie Wooster and his friend Bingo Little were born in the same village only a few days apart. He was also the godfather to Wodehouse's son, John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley. Wodehouse was a distant cousin of John Wodehouse. Others have asserted John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley was the inspiration. to have been the inspiration for the character of Bertie Wooster.
The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy believes George Grossmith Jr. First appearing in " Extricating Young Gussie" in 1915, Bertie is the narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, his last appearance being in the novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, published in 1974. The two exceptions are the short story " Bertie Changes His Mind" (1922), which is narrated by Jeeves, and the novel Ring for Jeeves (1953), a third-person narration in which Bertie is mentioned but does not appear. īertie is the narrator and central figure of most of the Jeeves short stories and novels. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have been described as "one of the great comic double-acts of all time". An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to save Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P.
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