# Uncle Willoughby — Jeeves Stories character guide

> Uncle Willoughby in Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Willoughby

**First appearance:** 0010-scoring-off-jeeves

## Snapshot

Bertie's uncle, whose scandalous memoirs threaten to expose the family's private follies and send his nephew scrambling to suppress them.

## Who they are

Uncle Willoughby holds the purse strings that keep Bertie in socks and club dinners, which makes his literary ambitions a matter of urgent family concern. His manuscript, packed with indiscreet recollections of relatives and their misadventures, transforms a harmless vanity project into a weapon aimed at the family's respectability. The panic he sets off shows how thoroughly Bertie's comfortable world rests on the goodwill of eccentric elders, and why Jeeves's discretion is worth its weight in gold.

## In the story

### [Jeeves Takes Charge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/jeeves-takes-charge)

Bertie's uncle; author of scandalous memoirs 'Recollections and Memories' that Florence wants destroyed; searches Bertie's room for the manuscript.

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