be a relation too The Bishop of Godalming, a relative of the Threepwoods Mrs Jack Hale, mentioned as belonging to the collateral branch of the family (Something Fresh) The 8th Earl of Emsworth - Clarence's father (Company for Gertrude; page 95) Robert - uncle of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96) Claude - cousin of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96) Alistair - maternal uncle of Clarence (Company for Gertrude; page 96) Domestic staff Secretaries Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's original, very efficient secretary Montague "Monty" Bodkin, also Emsworth's secretary for a time Lavender Briggs, a tall and haughty secretary Alexandra "Sandy" Callender, an attractive but fiery red-headed secretary Hugo Carmody, another secretary, and a friend of Ronnie Fish Rupert Psmith, Baxter's replacement as secretary Gerald Anstruther Vail, a thriller-writer, and briefly Emsworth's secretary Eve Halliday, hired to catalogue the library House staff Sebastian Beach, butler Maudie, his much-married niece Mrs Twemlow, housekeeper Merridew, an under-butler James and Alfred, Thomas and Stokes, Charles and Henry, footmen at the Castle Outdoor staff Thorne, the Scottish Head Gardener in Something Fresh Angus McAllister, the Scottish Head Gardener after Thorne Slingsby, a chauffeur Alfred Voules, another chauffeur Pig staff George Cyril Wellbeloved, Emsworth's first pig man, who defects to the Parsloe-Parsloe camp James Pirbright, another pig man, Wellbeloved's replacement Edwin Pott, the pig man in Full Moon Monica Simmons, a pig girl of Amazonian proportions Other characters Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's beloved black Berkshire sow Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Bart., neighbour and rival of Lord Emsworth Herbert Binstead, Parsloe's butler The Pride of Matchingham, Parsloe-Parsloe's pig The Queen of Matchingham, another pig owned by Parsloe-Parsloe James Bartholomew Belford, a farmer, whom Angela loves Major Wilfred "Plug" Basham, an old friend of Galahad and feature of his stories Admiral George J. "Fruity" Biffen, another old friend of Galahad The Rev. Rupert "Beefy" Bingham, Freddie's university pal "Puffy" Benger, yet another of Galahad's old cronies Quincy Titterton, Groomsman, employed to mask the fact that he was a paid cricketer in Lord Ellsworth’s estate team Sue Brown, a chorus girl who falls for Ronnie Fish Edward Cootes, a card-sharp, in love with Aileen Peavey Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, an ill-mannered old man, an old friend of Connie Horace Pendlebury-Davenport, Dunstable's wealthy nephew Alaric "Ricky" Gilpin, Dunstable's impoverished nephew, a poet Archibald "Archie" Gilpin, another nephew of Dunstable, also impoverished Linda Gilpin, sister of Ricky and Dunstable's niece,