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Lord Emsworth is consistently presented just shy of sixty ; since Wodehouse wrote about him for over half a century, in novels more or less set in the present, this means that his dates vary depending on what one is reading.

As a child he once took a dead pet rabbit to bed with him ; at the age of fifteen, he smoked his first cigar, and he has rarely been called on to think quickly since hearing his father's footsteps approaching the stable-loft where he sat that day.

Never the brightest of minds, at Eton College they called him " Fathead ", and by the time we meet him his slowness of thought has become a byword ; he is prone to distraction and misunderstanding, but generally amiable.

His simple outlook makes him an excellent sleeper, and for twenty years he has rarely got less than his eight hours, usually managing ten ( he is particularly fond of sleeping at the start of train journeys ).

In Something Fresh he keeps a revolver by his bed, with which to fire wildly at burglars or Rupert Baxter.