# A Damsel in Distress — Character guide

> Key figures in A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [George Bevan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/george_bevan.md): George Bevan finds himself tangled in the Marsh family's schemes when he falls for Maud, who has fled Belpher Castle to escape an arranged marriage. His easy competence and quiet decency make him both a refuge for Maud a
- [Lady Maud Marsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/maud_marsh.md): Lady Maud Marsh is twenty, romantic, and thoroughly tired of being managed by her aunt and brother, who have decided she must marry Reggie Byng. Her longing for a lost love from a rainy Welsh holiday makes her reckless, 
- [Lord Marshmoreton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/lord_marshmoreton.md): Lord Marshmoreton is a widower of forty-eight who would gladly trade the peerage for a quiet afternoon of gardening and a few pages of his interminable family chronicle. His sister Caroline runs the household and his son
- [Reggie Byng](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/reggie_byng.md): Reggie Byng is Lady Caroline's stepson, a cheerful, muddled sportsman who has been groomed since childhood to marry Maud, though neither of them wants it. He is secretly smitten with another woman and confesses his relie
- [Albert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/albert.md): Albert is the young, cheeky page at Belpher who sees more than the family realizes, including the truth about Keggs and the charity shillings. When George Bevan is trapped on a balcony, Albert improvises a knotted-sheet 
- [Percy Wilbraham Marsh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/percy_wilbraham_marsh.md): Percy Wilbraham Marsh, Lord Belpher, is a young man of immense self-importance and limited humor, deeply conscious of his approaching majority and the dignity of his name. He regards Maud's independence as a scandal and 
- [Keggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/keggs.md): Keggs runs Belpher Castle's below-stairs world with the gravity of a diplomat and the ethics of a card sharp, having quietly rearranged the servants' lottery so that he, not young Albert, draws the interesting gentleman.
- [Billie Dore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/billie_dore.md): Billie is a Broadway performer transplanted to London, all slang and sympathy, the kind of friend who notices when George's heart is breaking while the rest of the world carols about the sunshine. Her American directness
- [Lord Belpher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/lord_belpher.md): Percy, now Lord Belpher, takes himself with a seriousness that makes his own misfortunes unbearable and everyone else's hilarious. A limping, seething young aristocrat, he sees George as an interloper and his sister's in
- [Geoffrey Raymond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/geoffrey_raymond.md): Geoffrey moves through Belpher Castle with the discretion of a good secretary, taking notes, keeping confidences, and never quite saying what he knows. He is the still point around which Maud's letters and George's hopes
- [Lady Caroline Byng](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/lady_caroline_byng.md): Lady Caroline presides over Belpher's social arrangements with the serene authority of a woman who has never doubted her own judgment, and she has decided opinions about who should marry whom. Her marriage to the cheerfu
- [Mr. Plummer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/mr_plummer.md): Vicar and father of the fluffy Miss Plummer, a comic figure.
- [Mac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/mac.md): A Scottish gardener working for Lord Marshmoreton.
- [Alice Faraday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/alice_faraday.md): Maud's maid, who assists in the romantic schemes.
- [Edwin Plummer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/edwin_plummer.md): Mr. Plummer's son, briefly mentioned as a suitor.
- [Spenser Gray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_damsel_in_distress_se/characters/spenser_gray.md): A painter commissioned to do a portrait at the castle.

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