* Norman Wodehouse ( 1887 – 1941 ), Royal Navy vice-admiral

* Captain Norman A. Wodehouse: December 1931-December 1934

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse.

Included among those Old Alleynians who have achieved eminence in their respective fields are Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir P G Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler and Sir Edward George.

* " Moon Love " w. George Grossmith, Jr. & P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern

* The Beauty Prize ( Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics and Book: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith ).

* The Cabaret Girl ( Music: Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith, Jr .) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19 and ran for 361 performances

Other globally well-known British novelists include George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Helen Fielding, Arthur C. Clarke, Alan Moore, Ian McEwan, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, Anthony Trollope, Beatrix Potter, A.

In November 1926, she became the first British performer to star in an American musical on Broadway when she opened in Oh, Kay !, with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows.

Besides Wodehouse, his frequent writing partners were the American, George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows, and the Englishman, Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote fourteen.

One of the most notable British comic novelists is P. G. Wodehouse, whose work follows on from that of Jerome K. Jerome and George & Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.

In their joint memoir Bring on the Girls !, P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton relate the story of Sylvia's audition for George Grossmith Jr. for the 1924 musical Primrose:

His most famous columns include the claims that P. G. Wodehouse was a Nazi collaborator, a charge from which George Orwell defended Wodehouse and the outing of Liberace for which the paper was sued and lost.

Notable holders of the office include Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Anthony Eden.

Throughout his career Pearson made the acquaintance of many other celebrated writers and performers, including George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas, Max Beerbohm, Sir Francis Galton, Winston Churchill, P. G. Wodehouse, and G. K. Chesterton.

Grossmith then partnered with George Edwardes's former associate, Pat Malone, to produce a series of mostly adaptations of imported shows at the Winter Garden between 1920 and 1926: Sally ( 1921 ), The Cabaret Girl ( 1922, with book by Wodehouse and music by Jerome Kern, The Beauty Prize ( 1923, with Wodehouse and Kern ), a revival of Tonight's the Night ( 1923 ), Primrose ( 1924, with music by George Gershwin ), Tell Me More ( 1925, with words by Thompson and music by George Gershwin ) and Kid Boots ( 1926 with music by Harry Tierney ), many of them featuring Leslie Henson.

is a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

Wodehouse against charges of being a Nazi sympathiser, a defence based on Wodehouse's lack of interest in and ignorance of politics.

* 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist ( d. 1975 )

Wodehouse, Keith Waterhouse, Quentin Crisp, Olivia Manning, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Grenfell, E. M. Delafield, Stevie Smith, Virginia Graham, Joan Bakewell, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Peter Dickinson.

* Psmith, a P. G. Wodehouse character

P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about butler Jeeves in 1917.

And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.

* P. G. Wodehouse

** P. G. Wodehouse, English-born writer ( d. 1975 )

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 ".

The novel is dedicated: " To P. G. Wodehouse — whose books and stories have brightened my life for many years.

The series of stories which take place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the " Blandings books ", or indeed, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, " the Blandings Castle Saga ".< ref >

Bonfiglioli's style and novel structure have often been favorably compared to that of P. G. Wodehouse.

Several other members of the Wodehouse family have also gained distinction.

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In this novel there are echoes of the comedy of P. G. Wodehouse, with the hapless Ned being persuaded to get involved in clandestine activities in country houses, particularly sneaking Terence's dog Cyril into his room so he does not have to sleep in the stable, as Mrs. Mering has decreed.

Together they have two children: Lady Katherine Frances Wodehouse and David John Simon Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse ( born 1978 ), heir-apparent to the earldom.

Percival " Percy " Craye, later Earl of Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being Agatha Gregson's second husband, who would have been her first but for Agatha's discovering that he had behaved shamefully at a ball at Covent Garden, whereupon she broke their engagement and married Spenser Gregson instead.

It is claimed that the Wodehouse has not been sold for over 900 years.

The famous English humorist P. G. Wodehouse was a junior employee at the Bank's London office in Lombard Street from 1900 to 1902, and used the bank as an inspiration for some of his early work, especially his 1910 novel Psmith in the City.

The letters are introduced and annotated by Townend, who had provided Wodehouse with the inspiration for his character Ukridge.