# Claude and Eustace — Jeeves Stories character guide

> Claude and Eustace in Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lord Claude, Claude, Eustace, young Eustace, Mr. Eustace

**First appearance:** 0017-the-delayed-exit-of-claude-and-eustace

## Snapshot

Bertie's twin cousins, Oxford undergraduates of boundless cheek and dubious ambition, forever cadging meals and dragging Bertie into their schemes.

## Who they are

Claude and Eustace are a matched pair of cheerful scroungers whose Oxford careers seem to consist chiefly of extracting money and hospitality from their elder cousin Bertie. They are candidates for a college club called The Seekers, though what they seek is never made clear, and their talent for landing in scrapes is matched only by their shamelessness in escaping them. They matter because they embody the freeloading-relative menace that Wodehouse renders so funny, and their presence invariably signals that Bertie's peace is about to be shattered.

## Relationships

### [Bertie Wooster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/bertie_wooster)

_family_

Claude and Eustace are Bertie's twin cousins, known for their mischievous and often troublesome behavior, which frequently drags Bertie into their schemes.

### [Bertie Wooster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/bertie_wooster)

_family_

Claude and Eustace are Bertie's twin cousins, known for their mischievous and often troublesome behavior, which frequently drags Bertie into their schemes.

## In the story

### [Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/sir-roderick-comes-to-lunch)

Bertie's cousins, who encounter him in the park and try to borrow money for lunch.

### [The Great Sermon Handicap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-great-sermon-handicap)

Bertie's cousins, part of the reading party and co-organizers of the betting event.

### [The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-delayed-exit-of-claude-and-eustace)

Bertie's high-spirited cousins, expelled from Oxford, who pester Marion Wardour and are tricked into sailing to South Africa.

### [Bingo and the Little Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/bingo-and-the-little-woman)

Mentioned as having departed a week or so before the events of the chapter.

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