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Bertie is also acquainted with Lord Emsworth, another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited Blandings Castle.
Holloway appeared for the first time in a major British television series in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, playing Beach, the butler, to Ralph Richardson's Lord Emsworth.
In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.
Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth ( Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ), home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.
Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.
Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant ( in A Gentleman of Leisure ), and Lord Arthur Hayling ( in The Prince and Betty ).
The name " Lord Emsworth " first appears in Wodehouse's works as a passing mention in a short called " The Matrimonial Sweepstakes ", a version of " The Good Angel " printed in Cosmopolitan in the U. S. in February 1910.
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.
Lord Emsworth has ten sisters ( one deceased ), two brothers ( one deceased ), two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws – for a full list of his family members, see the Threepwood family list.
In " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ", he grows a rather ragged beard, little realising the peril this puts his castle in, but soon realises that it is better to remove it.
Lord Emsworth plays some part in all the novels and short stories in the Blandings canon.
* Horace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a 1933 silent film adaptation of Summer Lightning
* Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 ( only the first, adapted from the short " Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ", still remains in the BBC archives ).
* Richard Vernon portrayed Lord Emsworth in BBC Radio 4 adaptations from the 1960s to the 1980s, including series based on Galahad at Blandings and the Blandings short stories.
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Lord and Others
Others, including Macaulay and Lord Acton, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for such violence as an effect of the general criminality and corruption of the time.
Others, also basing their claims on passages of his diaries, have suggested that King was in love with Lord Tweedsmuir, whom he had chosen for appointment as Governor General in 1935.
Others associated with the Cavalier tradition, according to Skelton, include Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Aurelian Townshend, William Cartwright, Thomas Randolph, William Habington, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Edmund Waller, and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
' Others included ' The Happy Song ', ' Lord, You Have My Heart ', ' Thank You For Saving Me ', ' Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?
Others may define the Lord ’ s recovery as the recovery of the proper church life, but the proper church life also is Christ.
Others Oates accused included Dr William Fogarty, Archbishop Peter Talbot of Dublin, Samuel Pepys MP, and Lord Belasyse.
Others influenced by Dampier include Captain Cook, Lord Nelson and Charles Darwin.
Others have defended Newcastle by contrasting his ' continental policy ' with the failure of Lord North to gather European allies during the American War of Independence which led to Britain's eventual defeat.
* " Ukridge and the Home from Home ", " The Come-back of Battling Billson ", and " The Level Business Head ", which all appear in Lord Emsworth and Others ( 1937 ).
Lord Emsworth and Others contains one story set at Blandings Castle, three golf stories narrated by the Oldest Member, one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, one tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and three Ukridge stories.
* One in Lord Emsworth and Others ( 1937 ) ( U. S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings )
* A single story from Lord Emsworth and Others:
" -- ( per Lord Denning in Anton Piller KG v. Manufacturing Processes Ltd. and Others Ch.
Others interpret Esuprastus is a compound name, with " Esu -" deriving from the god Esus and meaning " lord ", " master " or " honour ", and " Prasto -" being an abbreviated personal name, the coin inscription thus meaning " under Lord Prasto -".
Others include Thomas Lord, founder of Lord's Cricket Ground and England footballer Matthew Upson.
Others Oates accused included Dr. William Fogarty, Archbishop Peter Talbot of Dublin, Samuel Pepys, and Lord Belasyse.
Others say that it was in honour of John Lane, who was the son of the London Lord Mayor at the time as well as a good friend of the first Governor, Arthur Phillip.
Others, such as Thomas Lord Cromwell are so atypically written that it is difficult to believe they really are by Shakespeare.
Others permitted to know of the existence of a signals interception unit were the Second Sea Lord, Secretary of the Admiralty, the Chief of Staff ( Oliver ), the Director of Operations Division ( DOD ), assistant director, Director of Intelligence Division ( DID, Captain William Hall ) and three duty captains.
Sparks defended his methods in A Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others ( 1852 ).
Others, such as John Lord, went bankrupt or, as did Myles, sold out early and moved to Sydney.
Many of Wodehouse's short stories appeared first in magazines and were later published in collections, some of which include tales from more than one series: Lord Emsworth and Others, for example, contains stories about Blandings Castle, the Oldest Member, Mr Mulliner, and Freddie Widgeon.
* " The Crime Wave at Blandings ", featured in the collection Lord Emsworth and Others ( 1937 )
Others on the jury were Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, David Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Crawford, Alexander Cunningham, Lord Kilmaurs, James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, and Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun.

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