The ambassador also described Mr Cowen's fondness for frequenting pubs and singing, saying he would likely be more approachable than his predecessor Bertie Ahern.

Though Ukridge never achieved the gigantic popularity of the same author's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse retained a certain fondness for him, his last appearance in a Wodehouse story being as late as 1966.

After the death of his brother Fred in 1877, Sullivan supported Fred's widow and children financially for the rest of his life, effectively adopting his nephew Bertie.

She was portrayed in the 2002 television film Bertie and Elizabeth by Juliet Aubrey, the 2006 film The Queen by Sylvia Syms and in the 2010 film The King's Speech by Helena Bonham Carter, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal.

* North Carolina: Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Cleveland ( except for the city of Kings Mountain ), Craven, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland, Union, Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson

The Irish government followed a similar line to other EU governments during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, condemning the actions of Israel as " reckless and disproportionate " and calling for an immediate ceasefire on both sides, while also condemning the actions of Hezbollah.

Willoughby Wooster, upon whom Bertie is initially dependent for financial support, but who apparently passes away during the course of the stories, allowing Bertie to inherit a vast fortune.

Despite any disagreement he might have towards the plans his aunts have, Bertie feels obliged to follow their whims, often getting in trouble for doing so.

Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, whom she regards as a burden to society in his present state, must marry and carry on the Wooster name ; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects.

When Bertie catches his valet Meadowes stealing his silk socks, he fires him and sends for another from the agency.

Among Bertie's many reasons for not wanting to marry are his dislike of children and that all of his fiancées seem to have an aversion to Jeeves, insisting that Bertie dismiss him after their wedding.

Bertie has several friends who keep popping into his life, mostly for Jeeves ' help.

* Hildebrand " Tuppy " Glossop, who once challenged Bertie to swing across the pool in the Drones club and " looped back the last ring, thus rendering it necessary for me to drop into the deep end in formal evening costume ".

Bertie is known for being loyal to his friends, willing to do whatever he can to solve their problems, saying " when it comes to helping a pal we Woosters have no thought of self.

The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy believes George Grossmith, Jr. to have been the inspiration for Bertie Wooster.

Papers released by the Public Record Office have disclosed that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir Patrick Dean, British ambassador in Washington, argued that it " would also give currency to a Bertie Wooster image of the British character, which we are doing our best to eradicate ".

It was named for James Bertie, his brother Henry Bertie, or perhaps both, each having been one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.

Bertie, not wanting Hannah to leave, suggests swapping Charlie for Billy.

Bertie Ahern, possibly one of Haughey's biggest supporters, remained as Minister for Finance due to his agreement with Reynolds not to challenge him for the leadership.

Reynolds ' Minister of Finance, Bertie Ahern, issued a tax amnesty for people who had outstanding tax bills unpaid and undeclared, provided they make some declaration of their previous income.

* Albemarle Bertie, Royal Navy officer and later Admiral during the American Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars

The outbreak of the Second World War caused the small group to fall apart as Leese declared loyalty to King and country and renamed the group the Angles Circle but this stance was rejected by some pro-German members such as Tony Gittens, Harold Lockwood and Bertie Mills.

A novel, The Way Home, was published in 2007 about Bertie Anderson and his three brothers who were also killed in the First World War.

* Bertie Felstead ( 1894 – 2001 ), British soldier, World War I veteran and centenarian who gained fame at the end of his life as ( or was believed so at the time ) to be the last surviving soldier to have taken part in the Christmas truce of 1915

* Bertie Fisher ( 1878 – 1972 ), KCB CMG DSO ( 13 July 1878-1972 ) was a British Army General during World War II

* Bertie Stevens ( 1886 – 1943 ), English cricketer who played 19 first-class games, all but one for Worcestershire before the First World War

* John Bertie ( born 1923 ), officer in the United States Navy during World War II.

The Twenty Foot Drain was a main part of Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey's drainage scheme, declared complete in 1638 and undone from 1642 onward, during the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).

Prince Albert, Duke of York – " Bertie " to the family – was the second son of King George V. He initially proposed to Elizabeth in 1921, but she turned him down, being " afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to ".

George had expressed private reservations about his successor, saying, " I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne.

King George V had severe reservations about Prince Edward, saying, " I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne.

* On 26 June 1975, a the day after emergency was imposed in India, the Bombay edition of The Times of India in its obituary column carried an entry that read " D. E. M O ' Cracy beloved husband of T. Ruth, father of L. I. Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 26 June ".

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in a report in the Financial Times said that his decision in 2001 to create a new financial regulator was one of the main reasons for the collapse of the Irish banking sector and “ if I had a chance again I wouldn ’ t do it ”.

Vicky responded, " I do not think her at all distinguée looking-certainly the opposite to Bertie's usual taste ", whereas the tall and slender Alexandra of Denmark was " just the style Bertie admires ".

Finale Act I: This Seems to Me a Tricky Business – Drake, Bertie, Raymond, Jack

In a 11 April letter, Victoria unhappily noted to her eldest daughter " You did not tell me that Bertie had met Uncle Ernest at Thebes ... I am always alarmed when I think of Uncle Ernest and Bertie being together as I know the former will do all he can to set Bertie against the marriage with Princess Alix ".

Bertie Ahern, the Irish Taoiseach, on the other hand, said that " an operation of this magnitude ... has obviously been planned at a stage when I was in negotiations with those that would know the leadership of the Provisional movement ".

He interviewed Bertie Ahern in 2006, after which Dobson said " I've never done an interview like it before and I doubt if I ever will again ".

She submitted an article for Milady's Boudoir ( the women's paper of Dahlia Travers, Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia ), entitled " How I Keep the Love of My Husband-Baby ", which, fortunately for her husband, hasn't been published.

Wodehouse's novel The Code of the Woosters, the narrator Bertie Wooster mentions Jael in a description of hangover symptoms that he is experiencing: " Indeed, just before Jeeves came in, I had been dreaming that some bounder was driving spikes through my head -- not just ordinary spikes, as used by Jael the wife of Heber, but red-hot ones.

The scene in Right Ho, Jeeves in which Gussie, thoroughly inebriated due to Jeeves and later Bertie Wooster lacing his orange juice with gin, as well as his massive drink of whisky, gives a speech at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School is often cited as among the finest vignettes of English comic literature.

* 12 December – Bill Clinton, President of the United States, arrives in Dublin beginning what will be his last international trip as President and meets with President McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and gives a speech in Dundalk.