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* J C T ( John Christopher Timothy ) Jennings — son of a businessman whose home is at Haywards Heath in the stockbroker belt.

He is good-natured and well-meaning, but his tendency to act on impulse results in him getting in to trouble frequently.

Buckeridge told BBC reporter Michael Crick that the fictional Jennings had been modelled on a schoolfriend, Diarmaid Jennings ( 1913 – 2009 ).