Roderick Spode
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Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. In the first novel in which he
Roderick Spode, as played by John Turner in the television series Jeeves and Wooster
The fascist politician Oswald Mosley, on whom the character of Spode was based
P. G. Wodehouse
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Je
Roderick Spode
…Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. In the first novel in which he appears, he is an "amateur dictator" and the leader of a fictional fascist group in London called the Saviours of…
Wodehouse in 1930
St Nicolas Church, Guildford, where Wodehouse was christened
Cover of Wodehouse's first published novel, 1902
Wodehouse in 1904, aged 23