# A Prefect’s Uncle — Character guide

> Key figures in A Prefect’s Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Mr. Gethryn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/mr_gethryn.md): Gethryn is the head-prefect of Leicester's, a Sixth Form cricketer charged with rescuing a house gone slack under weak leadership. His plans for reform are complicated by the arrival of Farnie, a cocky fourteen-year-old 
- [Pringle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/pringle.md): Pringle divides his time between stump-cricket test matches against the Ashby twins and dodging the Upper Fifth's compulsory verse composition. Having just escaped that form, he's promised to help a friend with the Death
- [Norris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/norris.md): Norris is the kind of boy who turns a missed slip catch into a moral crusade, and he's convinced Gethryn's unexplained disappearance during the match deserves punishment. His outrage runs up against Mr. Robertson's madde
- [Farnie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/farnie.md): Farnie arrives at Beckford with the composure of a boy who has seen it all, immediately outwitting Monk and Danvers's attempted shakedown and organizing a rag within minutes of reaching his form-room. As Gethryn's uncle,
- [Mr. Marriott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/mr_marriott.md): Marriott shares a study with Gethryn and serves as his closest ally in the running of Leicester's, greeting the new term with mock outrage at the lack of red carpet and brass band. His irreverent eye for the absurd — whe
- [Leicester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/leicester.md): Leicester is a decent man whose spirit is willing but whose will is not spirited, and his habit of avoiding unpleasantness has let his House slide into a bad name. He's placed his hopes for improvement on Gethryn, the fi
- [Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/wilson.md): Wilson is a junior boy in Jephson's House, known well by sight as a distinctly promising bat but not yet on speaking terms with Norris, the First Eleven captain. Nervous and earnest, he gets tangled in the Gethryn affair
- [Reece](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/reece.md): Reece is a steady presence in the Beckford cricket world, working on his prose against time and fielding with quiet competence. When Gethryn vanishes during the M.C.C. match, Reece asks one mild question and lets the mat
- [Gosling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/gosling.md): Samuel Wilberforce Gosling opens the bowling for Beckford with a fury that terrifies clergymen and small cover-points alike, and his truculent streak on the field is matched only by his irritation when his analysis gets 
- [Baker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/baker.md): A student who appears in various school scenes and is often surprised.
- [Master Lorimer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/master_lorimer.md): A young boy at the school, possibly a relative of Miss Lorimer.
- [Mabel Lorimer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/mabel_lorimer.md): A female visitor to the school who interacts with the boys.
- [Bishop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/bishop.md): The Bishop—Gethryn to masters and prefects—is head of Leicester's House and the school's best bowler, a boy whose quiet authority is backed by a willingness to knock Monk's feet from under him when words fail. His refusa
- [Mr. Mortimer Wells](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/mr_mortimer_wells.md): Mr. Wells is a guest of the Headmaster, a man who takes up a cause from pure love of argument and delivers his opinions with the air of one conferring a favour. Asked to read and comment on a prize poem, he picks it apar
- [Jephson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/jephson.md): A master at the school who teaches and disciplines students.
- [Danvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/danvers.md): A student who appears in the background of school activities.
- [Headmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/headmaster.md): The Headmaster is the ultimate authority at Beckford, a man who can laugh off Mr. Wells's hypercriticism and then quietly ask Lawrie whether the verses were really his. He keeps the masters' literary squabble from becomi
- [Waterford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/waterford.md): A student mentioned in passing during school events.
- [R. Farnie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/r_farnie.md): A relative of the student Farnie, possibly his father.
- [Mr. Arthur James](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/characters/mr_arthur_james.md): A character who appears in a specific episode.

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