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

He shuns his administrative duties, and generally has a secretary to handle such things ; amongst the occupants of this post have been the likes of Hugo Carmody, Monty Bodkin and Psmith, although by far the best known, and least appreciated by his Lordship, is Rupert Baxter, the bespectacled efficiency expert, who made Emsworth's life a misery with his ruthless organisation of his master's precious time.

His strength of character is sorely tested, when called upon by Ronnie Fish to help in his schemes involving the Empress, in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather ; he later does indeed resign, after shooting Rupert Baxter with an air gun ; however, Emsworth cannot do without his butler, and he assures his faithful servant of continued employment, in " The Crime Wave at Blandings ".

Rupert Baxter is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

Baxter, Rupert

In the novels Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather, while she is under the care of Pirbright, she becomes subject of various schemes ; first stolen by Ronnie Fish ( who has upset his uncle by bouncing a tennis ball on her back and hopes to get back into his good books by " finding " her again ), she is stashed in a gamekeeper's cottage in the woods, and fed by the admirable Beach, but later moved by Hugo Carmody to a caravan owned by Rupert Baxter.

Amongst those who have trodden the boards at the Citizens Theatre or worked backstage are Ciarán Hinds, Rupert Everett, Helen Baxendale, Tim Roth, Celia Imrie, Mark Rylance, Laurance Rudic, Lorcan Cranitch, Tim Curry, Sean Bean, Una McLean, Pierce Brosnan, Ann Mitchell, Alan Rickman, Glenda Jackson, Greg Hicks, David Hayman, Iain Robertson, Henry Ian Cusick, Robbie Coltrane, Stanley Baxter, Allison McKenzie, Duncan Macrae, Gary Oldman, Leonard Maguire, Fidelis Morgan, Moira Shearer, Julie Le Grand, Andrew Keir, Sophie Ward, Roberta Taylor and Trisha Biggar ( who designed the costumes for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ), was for very many years, wardrobe mistress.

The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.

Resting at Bury nearby, Rupert was joined by the Marquess of Newcastle's cavalry under Lord George Goring, which had broken out of York early in the siege, with a small contingent from Derbyshire, and several regiments which were being freshly raised in Lancashire by the Earl of Derby.

* Rupert Frazer ..... Lord George Lamson-Scribener

Rupert was placed in command of a Palatinate cavalry regiment, and his later friend Lord Craven, an admirer of Rupert's mother, assisted in raising funds and accompanied the army on the campaign.

Lord Craven, also taken in the battle, attempted to persuade his captors to allow him to remain with Rupert, but was refused.

Rupert allied himself with Lord Shaftesbury on matters of foreign policy, but remained loyal to King Charles II on other issues, and was passionate about protecting the Royal Prerogative.

Rupert was also appointed to the supreme position of " General at Sea and Land ", effectively assuming the wartime powers of the Lord High Admiral.

He starred alongside some high profile names including cult science fiction actress and Superman star Sarah Douglas, Rupert Degas, Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis, Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs, Mark Wing-Davey and Martin Jarvis ( written by Elliott Stein & Neil Gardner, and produced / directed by Neil Gardner ).

Lord Invader ( Rupert Westmore Grant, 13 December 1914-15 October 1961 ) was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice.

It was Grant's tailor who gave him his moniker by commenting, " I tell you, Rupert, you should call yourself Lord Invader so when you go up to the city you be invadin ' the capital.

In August Goring had been despatched by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who recognized his ability, to join Charles I in the south, and in spite of his dissolute and insubordinate character he was appointed to supersede Henry, Lord Wilmot, as lieutenant-general of the Royalist horse.

On that day I was asked a question by Rupert Ryan, brother-in-law of Lord Casey, on the deportation of Malayan seamen, Chinese and other people who had contravened our immigration laws.

Rupert Evelyn Beckett by his wife Muriel Helen Florence Paget, daughter of Lord Berkeley Charles Sydney Paget, himself a younger son of the 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, whom he married in 13 December 1932, was an invalid for many years, suffering from clinical depression and anorexia nervosa, but she bore him his only child, a daughter, Fiona, in 1934.

In Doug's Quailman fantasies, he has the villain identities of Golden Salmon, Rupert Schmupert, Lord of the Polka, and an unnamed space slug.

Prince Rupert challenged him, and he fought a duel with Lord Wilmot.

The 6th and present Marquess is Christopher George Charles Nevill ( b. 23 April 1955 ), the son of the late Lord Rupert Charles Montecute Nevill and Lady Ann Camilla Evelyn Wallop.

Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher Lee, writer George Orwell, author Rupert Croft-Cooke, poet Gavin Ewart, composer John Gardner, world champion motor racing driver James Hunt, Leader of the House of Lords Lord Strathclyde, journalist and television presenter Peter Snow, the UK Pop Idol winner Will Young, and BRIT Award-nominated singer Nerina Pallot, and the rugby union players James Haskell and the brothers Max and Thom Evans.

The 2006 festival welcomed many household names including Lord Falconer, Zadie Smith ( who, according to reports mentioned that one of the characters in her second book was based on an Old Gower ), Matthew Pinsent and Rupert Everett, as well as a multitude of journalists, actors, authors, musicians, economists, and many more.

Over the centuries the interpretation of Mary as an ever virgin bride of the Lord who had taken a vow of perpetual chastity spread and was in full vogue by the time of Rupert of Deutz in the 12th century.

1628, the Stadtholders and their Wives ( Amsterdam and Hague ), Charles Louis and Rupert, Charles I's nephews ( Louvre, St Petersburg, Combe Abbey and Willin ), and Lord Craven, ( National Portrait Gallery, London ). Honthorst's early style can be seen in the Lute-player ( 1614 ) at the Louvre, the Martyrdom of St John in Santa.

The Lord Brooke, who commanded for Parliament in Warwickshire and Staffordshire and was looked on by many as Essex's eventual successor, was killed in besieging Lichfield Cathedral on 2 March, and, though the cathedral soon capitulated, Gell and Brereton were severely handled in the indecisive Battle of Hopton Heath near Stafford on 19 March, and Prince Rupert, after an abortive raid on Bristol ( 7 March ), marched rapidly northward, storming Birmingham en route, and recaptured Lichfield Cathedral.

The King's chances of escaping from Newark were becoming smaller day by day, and they were not improved by a violent dispute between him and Rupert, Maurice, Lord Gerard and Sir Richard Willis, at the end of which these officers and many others rode away to ask Parliament for leave to go over-seas.

* Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill ( born London, 13 July 1940 ) married firstly 13 July 1965 Gillian Spreckles Fuller with no issue ; marriage dissolved in 1968 ; married secondly 1970 Elizabeth Jane Wyndham ( born 1948 ) ( a great-niece of the interior decorator Nancy Lancaster ) and has three children: Rupert John Harold Mark Spencer-Churchill ( born 26 November 1971 ), Dominic Albert Charles Spencer-Churchill ( born 1979 ), and Alexander David Spencer-Churchill ( born 9 June 1983 )

In July that year, his forces had taken on Prince Rupert and company at Ripley in Yorkshire, during which successful ( for the Parliamentarians ) skirmish, they liberated a statue of a wild boar that Lord Ingleby had brought back from Italy as one of a pair.

* In April 2012 Conservative Party MP and culture secretary came under pressure to resign as a result of his closeness to Rupert Murdoch's media empire and alleged corruption in dealing with Murdoch's bid for News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB.

The five chaperones were Debbie Dickey, a French teacher of the Montoursville Area High School ; Doug Dickey, husband of Debbie Dickey ; Carol Fry, former school board member ; Judith Rupert, high school secretary ; and Eleanor Wolfson ( mother of Wendy Wolfson ).

In the early 1990s, Robinson joined the News Corporation run by Rupert Murdoch, and then served as press secretary to the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

* Rupert Bateman, Sir Oswald ’ s secretary.

He and Geoffrey Cahill, then Labor's NSW general secretary, appeared in court on bribery and conspiracy charges but after 17 days of hearings and evidence from high-powered witnesses, including Rupert Murdoch, all charges were thrown out.

In 1684, the Hayes River was named for Sir James Hayes, a Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) charter member and secretary to Prince Rupert, by French trader / explorer Pierre Radisson At its mouth, the HBC established York Factory in 1684, which served as its North American headquarters until 1957.

Competition and policy issues relating to media and telecommunications became the responsibility of the culture secretary ; they were removed from the purview of the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, after Cable was recorded stating that he had " declared war " on Rupert Murdoch.

In 2007, former defence secretary Rupert Scholz stated that Germany should strive to become a nuclear power.

Sir Danvers, the chairman of the board, is in attendance along with His Grace Rupert the 14th Bishop of Basingstoke, the Right Honorable Sir Archibald " Archie " Proops, Lord Theodore " Teddy " Savage, Lady Elizabeth " Bessie " Beaconsfield, General Lord Glossop and Simon Stride-the secretary.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

The village is also linked with the Rupert Bear stories, as Alfred Bestall wrote and illustrated some of the stories whilst he lived in the village, in a cottage at the foot of Mynydd Sygun.

Some former The Wall Street Journal reporters have said that since Rupert Murdoch bought the paper, news stories have been edited to adopt a more conservative tone, critical of Democrats.

The novel predates the Just William books and Molesworth stories, but begins in a similar fashion to these books, describing the school lives of Rupert Ray and his friends at their public school, Kensingstowe.

Jack Frost has appeared as a minor character in the Rupert Bear stories, and in Jack of Fables the titular character became Jack Frost for a period of time.

* Although not a resident, Alfred Bestall, author and illustrator of the Rupert Bear stories, holidayed in Trefriw in 1912 and 1913.

This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of Zenda and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau.

A few days later Mr Bleibner ’ s nephew, Rupert, shot himself and the press has been full of stories of an Egyptian curse.