Wodehouse said of Flashman, " If ever there was a time when I felt that ' watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet ' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.

Wodehouse said of it, " Terrific: when better novels of suspense are written, lead me to them.

In a late book, Down the Kitchen Sink, dedicated in memory of Gaskin, Nichols said Gaskin's first name was Reginald, and in a late book by Wodehouse, that author gives Jeeves the first name Reginald.

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

In one television adaptation of the Jeeves novels by P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster, a similar insignia is used by the " Blackshorts ", a political group led by Roderick Spode, a character based on Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists.

By Jeeves, originally Jeeves, is a 1975 / 1996 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn, based on the novels of P. G. Wodehouse.

With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens.

* Psmith, a P. G. Wodehouse character

* Michael " Mike " Jackson, character in the Psmith books by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse devoted several paragraphs of Something New to the restaurant, and in his novel Psmith in the City, his two heroes dine there: " Psmith waited for Mike while he changed, and carried him off in a cab to Simpson's, a restaurant which, as he justly observed, offered two great advantages, namely, that you need not dress, and, secondly, that you paid your half-crown, and were then at liberty to eat till you were helpless, if you felt so disposed, without extra charge.

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.

Rupert Psmith ( or Ronald Eustace Psmith, as he is called in the last of the four books in which he appears ) is a recurring fictional character in several novels by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.

Carte was a school acquaintance of a cousin of Wodehouse at Winchester College, according to an introduction to Leave it to Psmith.

In 1929 Wodehouse helped to adapt Beith's Story Baa Baa Black Sheep for the stage and in 1930 they again collaborated on the dramatisation of Wodehouse's Leave it to Psmith.

Psmith, featured in stories such as The Golden Bat before Wodehouse invented the character of Jeeves, was named for a pre-war Warwickshire CCC cricketer.

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.

In later years, he was heard on BBC radio as Galahad Threepwood, another Wodehouse creation.

Wodehouse, Dr. Simon Sparrow in BBC Radio 4's adaptions of Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House and Doctor At Large ( 1968 ) ( currently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra ), a retired thespian in a series of six plays with Stanley Baxter Two Pipe Problems, and later the play Not Talking, commissioned for BBC Radio 3 by Mike Bartlett.

* 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

Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.

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.

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.

Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 3, 1948 by Didier & Co., New York.

Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London ; it was not published in the United States.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also compares his verse with that of W. S. Gilbert and suggests that his prose was an early influence on P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

She starred opposite Leslie Howard in Candle Light, an Austrian play adapted by Wodehouse, in 1929, and in 1931 she and Noël Coward triumphed in his play Private Lives, first in the UK, and later on Broadway.

Bolton is best known for his early work on the Princess Theatre musicals during the First World War with Wodehouse and the composer Jerome Kern.

With Wodehouse, he wrote a joint memoir of their Broadway years, entitled Bring on the Girls!

Wodehouse admired Bolton's stagecraft, but thought his lyrics weak, and at Kern's urging they decided to write jointly, Wodehouse concentrating on the lyrics and Bolton on the book.

* Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's secretary in the stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse

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

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.

Rupert's daughter, Bridget D ' Oyly Carte, however, believed that the Wykehamist schoolboy described to Wodehouse was not her father but his elder brother Lucas.

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1891 – 1894

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1896 – 1902

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

Likewise, P. G. Wodehouse used the phrase " Nigger minstrels " in Thank You, Jeeves ( 1934 ), the first Jeeves – Bertie novel, in admiration of their artistry and musical tradition.

* P. G. Wodehouse ( Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ) ( 1881 – 1975 ), English comic writer

* Pelham von Donop ( 1851 – 1921 ), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse

* P. G. Wodehouse ( 1881 – 1975 ), English comic writer ( former resident ).

* P. G. Wodehouse ( 1881 – 1975 ), English comic writer ( former resident ).

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley ( 1826 – 1902 ), politician and Foreign Secretary

* P. G. Wodehouse – Blandings Castle and Elsewhere ( short stories )

* P. G. Wodehouse – Sunset at Blandings ( posthumous )

* February 14 – Sir P. G. Wodehouse ( born 1881 ), English comic novelist – creator of Jeeves and Wooster

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley ( 18 August 1892 – 10 March 1894 )

* Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet ( c. 1714 – 1777 ), MP for Norfolk

* Armine Wodehouse ( MP ) ( 1860 – 1941 ), MP for Saffron Walden, descendant of the above

* Edmond Wodehouse ( 1784 – 1855 ), MP for Norfolk, and later, Norfolk East

* Edmond Robert Wodehouse ( 1835 – 1914 ), British Unionist politician

* Sir Edwin Frederick Wodehouse ( c. 1850 – 1934 ), senior British police officer

* Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet ( 1669 – 1754 ), British MP

* John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse ( 1741 – 1834 ), British MP and then peer

* John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse ( 1770 – 1846 ), British MP and then peer