Bertie Wooster
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Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears al
Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, 1922 illustration by A. Wallis Mills
George Grossmith Jr.
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George Grossmith, known until 1912 as George Grossmith Jr., was an English actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, remembered for his work in and with Edwardian music
Bertie Wooster
…over 30 short stories, his last appearance being in the novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, published in 1974. The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy believes George Grossmith Jr. to have been the inspiration for the character of Bertie Wooster. Others have asserted John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley, was the inspiration. P…
Grossmith in 1912
Début, in Haste to the Wedding, with Marie Studholme, 1892
With his frequent stage companion Edmund Payne in The New Aladdin, 1906
The Toreador, 1901