# Headmaster — A Prefect’s Uncle character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Headmaster, the headmaster, The Headmaster

**First appearance:** 0000-i-term-begins

## Snapshot

The school's genial but canny Head, who presides over masters' quarrels and boys' scandals with a cigar and a dry sense of proportion.

## Who they are

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 becoming a crisis, and his measured judgments set the tone for how the school handles its various storms. He matters because the boys' world of cricket and House politics only makes sense against the adult order he represents—benevolent, slightly amused, and never quite as fooled as he looks.

## In the story

### [A Disputed Authorship](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_prefect_s_uncle_se/chapters/xvi-a-disputed-authorship)

Investigates the plagiarism, interviews Lorimer and Pringle, and imposes punishment of extra lessons.

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